Michael Carroll

We make it easy for developers and product teams to incorporate real-time data streams into applications and focus on innovation, not infrastructure.

ChatJan 22, 2015

Customizable User Location Data for an Ember.js Chat App

This tutorial shows you how to implement advanced user detection for an Ember.js chat app, enabling users to define their location in the chat app.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatJan 21, 2015

Building a Real-time Chat Plugin for the Atom.io Text Editor

This tutorial shows you how to build a real-time messaging chat plugin application for the Atom.io text editor that can be applied to any other text editor.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatJan 20, 2015

Build User Detection and Message Persistence using Ember.js

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to implement user detection and message persistence for an Ember.js chatroom web or mobile application.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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BuildJan 20, 2015

Mobile Push Notifications 101: APNS, GCM, vs Pub/Sub

For our December FAQs, we talk all things mobile push notifications, including APNS, GCM, and pub/sub for real-time notifications.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatJan 15, 2015

Creating a Polymer Chat App with Material Design

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to build a fully featured mobile Polymer chat app using Polymer and Material Design.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsJan 14, 2015

Maintaining a PHP Publish/Subscribe Client Library

In this blog post, we discuss how to maintain a PHP publish/subscribe client SDK, including unit tests, auto testing, and maintaining versions.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsJan 12, 2015

What is Publish vs Subscribe and Real-Time Data Streams?

This blog post gives an overview of real-time data streams and the pubsub, publish/subscribe paradigm, including use cases and how to do it yourself.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJan 9, 2015

DIY Arduino Alarm Triggered by Temperature

This DIY Arduino project shows you how to build an Arduino alarm for frozen pipes that is triggered based on temperature.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJan 7, 2015

Stream Data, Signal, and Trigger Actions with Arduino Yún

A walkthrough on connecting an Arduino Yun to the Internet for remote signaling and trigger, as well as data streaming for IoT actions.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll