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When to keep live app state in PubNub DataSync, when you still need a real-time database, and how a marathon app splits its data between them.

Discover why Model Context Protocol (MCP) alone isn't enough for building production-ready real-time apps, and how combining MCP with engineering guidance (PubNub Skills) ensures robust architecture.

Learn the value of fandom engagement platforms and how brands monetize direct-to-consumer proximity, real-time messaging, and tiered subscriptions.

Product manager Cres Hay looks back on a year of AI coding: faster prototypes, narrower scope, and why human judgment still decides what is worth building.

Senior Solutions Architect Eric Lake uses the PubNub MCP to rapidly build demos. For instance, a working livestream chat demo took roughly an hour to spin up, including VIP access and moderation.

Take agent-to-agent protocol to the next level as GTM Manager Kayley Smith walks you through how to connect your agent to the Dating Block, the dating app where your agents meet their soulmates and you get to watch.

When you can build an agent with nothing but an IDE and a dream, building the agents is the easy part. Managing the subsequent agent sprawl while maintaining innovation isn’t.

Use streaming when stale state can change the next action. Use batch when the work is deterministic and replayable. Most production agentic workflows need both.