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BuildAug 29, 2014

IoT Demos: iBeacon, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, MQTT

When you intern at PubNub, you’re not running errands, getting your manager coffee, or scrubbing fridges. No, you’re building amazing applications and PubNub evangelism and IoT demos that harness the power of the PubNub Data Stream Network. You’re helping customers be successful with...
Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildAug 28, 2014

How to Create an App Like Snapchat

Building a DIY Snapchat isn’t as hard as you’d think. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to capture an image and send it in real time to a recipient using JavaScript. As a rule of thumb, if you can represent data as a JSON object or string, you can send it with PubNub Data Streams....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 28, 2014

Bidirectional Push Notifications for Large Message Payloads

This blog post looks at three mobile push notification methods with tutorials: Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Services, and PubNub Data Streams.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
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GamingAug 27, 2014

Creating Private Chat Requests with Popup Alerts

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Building on our previous spawning private...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 27, 2014

Blazing Fast Remote Signaling for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

This tutorial shows you how to connect a Raspberry Pi or Arduino to PubNub for the purpose of blazing fast and reliable remote signaling for embedded IoT.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
BuildAug 26, 2014

Real-time Collaboration Sync with Parse API and PubNub

By combining the Parse API with PubNub Data Streams you can obtain the ultimate developer toolkit powerful enough to scale your successful mobile app to billions of users. Using the Parse API for user management with large file storage and PubNub for data streams, you can  power live user communication...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
BuildAug 26, 2014

Get Redis Replication Right: Multi Data Center Support

This tutorial walks you through a proof-of-concept for global, multi data center Redis replication of data using PubNub and NodeJS. We’re continuing to grow our collection of persistence adapters for PubNub using Node.JS. Redis replication can be difficult due to TCP windowing and other Kernal...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsAug 25, 2014

Real-Time Networks: The New Super Internet for Data

We rely on global networks everyday (and now real-time networks), but do we even know what they are and how they came to be?
Todd Greene
Todd Greene
InsightsAug 22, 2014

Understanding Swift Programming for JavaScript Developers

In “Swift Programming Language for JavaScript Developers”, iOS developer JP Simard discusses the Swift Programming Language, it’s use cases, and JavaScript.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team