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Learn about new PubNub releases, industry trends, and app development tips.
BuildAug 29, 2023
Mitigate and Prevent Subscription Sharing for SaaS Companies
With any subscription based service, particularly SaaS, companies (like Netflix and Adobe Creative Cloud) are dealing with the problem of account subscription sharing. A user can begin a subscription and give another user their login credentials. So how can we mitigate, or better yet, prevent subscription...
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
GamingAug 25, 2023
Add Social Features to your Unity Game with PubNub
The best way for any game to improve player engagement and retention is to integrate real-time interactivity; this means features like in-game chat, alerts, leaderboards & presence, but developing these features yourself can be time-consuming and distracting - time you could spend better improving other...
Darryn Campbell
Developer Advocate, PubNub
InsightsAug 24, 2023
The Cognitive Era: An Evolving Generation of Computing
We’re moving from the programming era we’ve been in for decades to the cognitive era, combining the strengths of computers and humans to continue to push technology and what we do with it forward.
Michael Carroll
ChatAug 18, 2023
Chat Integrations: Use the Tools You Love
Integrations let you enhance your chat implementation without any additional servers or routing. They let you deliver advanced features like profanity filtering, video calling, translation, and more.
Eric Grossman
Content Marketing Manager
InsightsAug 17, 2023
What are WebSockets, and How Do They Work?
This blog post gives an overview of WebSockets, the pros and cons, and talks about what kind of applications you can build with WebSockets.
Michael Carroll
InsightsAug 16, 2023
Transforming Cross-Platform Experiences in Real Time With AI
We explore why cross-platform experiences are synonymous with "real time" and how you can optimize user experiences with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Michael Carroll
Product UpdatesAug 10, 2023
PubNub Pursues Rust to Deliver Best-in-Class APIs
Serguei explains the unique benefits of using Rust, stating that it "essentially makes me a better programmer." He points out that the language's stringent compiler pushes both junior and senior developers to improve their code quality, thereby effectively unifying the codebase. Additionally, Rust teaches...
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
News Aug 8, 2023
The Costly Kubernetes Journey: Challenges and Successes
Before migrating, we operated using the old way, static servers. We had no flexibility, and we continuously needed to scale up to keep pace with the demands of our customers, a task that required manual intervention. The prospect of automatic scaling led us to the embrace of Kubernetes.
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
InsightsAug 3, 2023
Low-Code/No-Code: Accelerating App Development & Innovation
Low-code and no-code approaches emphasize visual development tools and prebuilt components to streamline development. They don't need years of experience to operate, and they eliminate the need to manually write thousands of lines of code to develop any new application or tool.