Michael Carroll

We make it easy for developers and product teams to incorporate real-time data streams into applications and focus on innovation, not infrastructure.

JavaScript Testing: Idiot Proofing Your Code
InsightsSep 12, 2014

JavaScript Testing: Idiot Proofing Your Code

“JavaScript Testing: Idiot Proofing Your Code” aka Achieving Maintainability, including best practices for linting, reducing complexity and unit testing.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
4 Real-time Elements Every Multiplayer Game Dev Needs
GamingSep 10, 2014

4 Real-time Elements Every Multiplayer Game Dev Needs

This blog has four real-time elements that every multiplayer game dev needs including player position, lockstep, in-game chat, matchmaking, and real-time stats

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Granting and Revoking Permissions – Private Chat API
ChatSep 9, 2014

Granting and Revoking Permissions – Private Chat API

With our private chat API, in this tutorial, we’ll show you how to grant and revoke permissions and access to chat users for secure private chat.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
New Connected Stadiums for Audience Participation Apps
InsightsSep 5, 2014

New Connected Stadiums for Audience Participation Apps

The San Francisco 49ers will play the first regular season game at their new stadium on September 14th against the Chicago Bears. That day will usher in a new era of smart connected stadiums in professional sports. Located just minutes down the road from Atmel headquarters in Santa Clara, California,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
DIY Minecraft: Multiplayer Voxeljs with PubNub
GamingSep 4, 2014

DIY Minecraft: Multiplayer Voxeljs with PubNub

I recently stumbled across the awesome Voxeljs library which allows anybody to create Minecraft style games (Voxel) that run in the browser with NodeJS. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to develop multiplayer Voxeljs to build a DIY Minecraft! I decided I was going to take an afternoon...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Members Only! JavaScript Private Chat API w/ Access Control
GamingSep 2, 2014

Members Only! JavaScript Private Chat API w/ Access Control

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 → We’ve now built out a pretty solid...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
How to Create an App Like Snapchat
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
Creating Private Chat Requests with Popup Alerts
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
Get Redis Replication Right: Multi Data Center Support
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