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To get started, check out the links below and choose from our extensive list of SDKs and integrations. You’ll be up and running in no time.
Getting started with PubNub is free so create an account and follow these steps to understand how PubNub can help you connect the world in one tenth of a second.
- Set up your account
- Get the SDK
- Initialize PubNub
- Identify users and devices
- Send messages
- Receive messages
- Retrieve old messages
- Check user presence
- Add custom metadata
- Manage access
- Apply server-side processing
- Send push notifications
What we do
PubNub takes care of the infrastructure needed for the real-time communication layer of your apps so that you can focus on your application innovation. You benefit from our global scalability, 99.999% uptime SLA, and extensible platform for new real-time use cases and other third-party APIs.
PubNub is optimized for maximum performance and reliability using the best methods and built by an expert engineering team with many years of experience delivering scalable infrastructure products. By using PubNub you leverage our team's expertise and operational skills to successfully provide a highly-available, real-time data stream network for fast and reliable messaging and signaling.
Attempting to operate a similar solution targeting a comparable quality on your own is likely to be drastically more costly. For reference, read our blog.
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