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Note: This is a modified version of the article that I originally published on Tuts+ Code. With the rise of the maker movement—Maker Faire, 3D printers, DIY robots, drones, and so on—the popularity of Arduino, an open-source, microcontroller-based kit, has turned many software engineers into hardware...

PubNub’s real-time messaging infrastructure has proved its mettle across various industry domains, Fintech (Financial Technology) being one of them. From instant stock updates to real-time financial data analytics, PubNub provides a resilient and best in class network for streaming financial data across...

Note: Shyam recently wrote and recorded a video about his traffic management system. You can view the recording on our webinar site. -ed When it comes to emergency response, every second counts. For emergency response vehicles, meandering through busy intersections and gridlocked streets can present...

In the previous article, I broke IoT down to simpler components like software, hardware and network, and went on to categorize the pain points in IoT. Moving forward, I will show you how to overcome these challenges when building a real-time IoT application. Whether you are building a home automation...

As hardware gets cheaper and devices get smarter, the world moves towards being always-on and forever connected. This means that more and more data is constantly being sent and received. Traditionally it was only mobile phones, computers, and servers talking to each other, but nowadays, that list...

Create real-time graphs without code! With PubNub’s Project EON you can create real-time graphs that update when you publish data over PubNub. EON works with any of the 70+ SDKs available. Check out our libraries for Javascript, Python, Ruby, and Arduino. If you need help getting started with EON, check...

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 → One of the most common use-cases of PubNub...

Recently, I have become interested in using RethinkDB as my preferred document based database. Although RethinkDB and MongoDB have their own similarities and differences, it’s RethinkDB’s real-time web feature and their query language that has impressed me the most. If you have been following my...

Streams are a very powerful concept. They are programming constructs which move data between objects and services without having to manually loop through the data, which is one reason why they are so popular. Twitter has streams, NodeJS has streams, Java 8 has streams, and even RSS feeds can be represented...