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AI adoption for coding has reached an all-time high, but there's a bottleneck nobody budgeted for. Explore what MCP servers, CLIs, and skill files actually cost you before an agent does any work, and a benchmarking measure using tooling from Blocks.ai (powered by PubNub).

Learn how PubNub powers ticketing systems with live ticket queues, Presence, and event hooks under 100ms.

Learn how to design agentic workflows with real-time data, freshness tiers, PubNub channels, replay, and auditability across agents, apps, and verifiers.

Person-centric CX fails when agents and AI lack a shared live timeline. Learn how to power customer engagement platforms with real-time engagement.

Polling and delayed alerts leave vitals sitting idle. Learn how real-time RPM utilizes features like Signals, Presence, and push notifications to ensure wearable data reaches clinicians in time.

Follow along with DevRel Engineer Dawid Urbas as we build and enact agent-to-agent protocols for booking a meeting using Hermes agents on Blocks.ai.

Learn how real-time staff scheduling utilizes Presence, push, and shift bidding to fill coverage in minutes, not hours.

Fitness and mindfulness apps lose users when workouts feel solo. How real-time chat, presence, live classes, and push keep members engaged without needing to build your own backend.