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BuildMar 22, 2017

Build a Dashboard for Monitoring IoT Data with Initial State

Initial State allows you to stream data from your smart devices and connected applications to build beautiful IoT visualizations and real-time dashboards in the browser. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to track and display IoT metrics to a live dashboard with our Initial State BLOCK for...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Add embeddable gifs to real-time chat giphy API
ChatMar 16, 2017

Integrate GIFs In Real time Chat App with Giphy API + BLOCKS

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 → You can’t hide from them. GIFs...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildMar 16, 2017

Real-time ArcGIS Geocoding & Esri Geocoding BLOCK

Geocoding converts addresses and place names into latitude and longitude, and vice versa. So when a user inputs Empire State Building, they’re returned the exact geographic coordinates of that place, as well as the address. The Esri Geocoding Service allows you to easily build in geocoding functionality,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildMar 10, 2017

Streaming Real-time Data and Metrics Into New Relic Insights

How to stream real-time data and metrics into the New Relic Insights service using PubNub BLOCKS.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
GamingMar 7, 2017

Building a Multiplayer Hangman Game for iOS in Swift

With the launch of PubNub BLOCKS last year, PubNub extended its functionality to enable you to execute functions on your data streaming over the PubNub network. And it fits in great with simple turn-based multiplayer games for both web and mobile. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through a simple...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsMar 2, 2017

Why the Future May Not Be Serverless

In this talk from Stream Conf 2016, Charity Majors and Mark Ferlatte explore alternatives to putting all our eggs in the serverless basket.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
InsightsFeb 27, 2017

How Always-on Apps are Driving Microservices to the Edge

o truly meet the needs of real-time, always-on apps, serverless platforms must evolve from the cloud to the network, and harness the power of microservices.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
InsightsFeb 24, 2017

How Our Backend Became 10x Faster with Streaming Rows

What started out as a neat little experiment using AWS Lambdas to stream processed data to RDS Clusters, at the beginning of 2016, has led to a slew of discoveries regarding major databases, cost-effectiveness, and the delicate balance between computation and I/O speeds.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
News Feb 21, 2017

Young Programmers Impress at San Mateo Hacks

A wrap up of the SM Hacks hackathon at San Mateo Highschool, including the winners and the technologies and APIs they used.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll