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PubNub
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PubNub

#55in Platform as a Service
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What is PubNub?

PubNub makes it easy for you to add real-time capabilities to your apps, without worrying about the infrastructure. Build apps that allow your users to engage in real-time across mobile, browser, desktop and server.

PubNub is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Key Features

PubNub SDKs support over 50 of the most popular environments, including: iOS, Android, JavaScript, .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and many more.Data Push - Establish and maintain persistent socket connections to any device (mobile, browser, desktop and server) and push data to global audiences in less than ¼ of a secondPresence - Automatically detect when users enter or leave your app and whether machines are onlineStorage and Playback- Store your real-time data streams for future access, “playback” or re-publishMobile - Easily manage the complexity of real-time apps on mobile devicesAnalytics - Simulate an audience of millions. See a live view of audience size, engagement and geographySecurity - Protect your real-time data with easy to use enterprise-grade security

PubNub Pros & Cons

Pros of PubNub

  • ✓Massively scalable & easy to use
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Reliable
  • ✓Great support
  • ✓Flexible to integrate to custom applications
  • ✓99.999% availability guarantees
  • ✓High-Performance
  • ✓Sockets at Scale
  • ✓High-Reliability
  • ✓Multiplexing

Cons of PubNub

  • ✗Costly

PubNub Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PubNub?

Firebase

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Socket.IO

Socket.IO

It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.

ws

ws

It is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation.

Pusher

Pusher

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet.

Supabase

Supabase

Supabase is currently in early-Alpha .It is an open-source Firebase alternative. It adds realtime and RESTful APIs to your PostgreSQL database without a single line of code.

PubNub Integrations

Fabric by Twitter, MongoDB Stitch, ChatEngine, Tisane API, Contentful are some of the popular tools that integrate with PubNub. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with PubNub.

Fabric by Twitter
Fabric by Twitter
MongoDB Stitch
MongoDB Stitch
ChatEngine
ChatEngine
Tisane API
Tisane API
Contentful
Contentful

PubNub Discussions

Discover why developers choose PubNub. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

damon nyhan
damon nyhan

Jul 26, 2019

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I use PubNub because the SDK is easy to setup and use. It enables secure communication with my IOT device. I really like the PubNub API design. It allow for easy debugging, usage monitoring while providing powerful ready made functions, analytic tools and presentation tools.

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leddaa
leddaa

Jul 26, 2019

Needs adviceonPubNubPubNubUnityUnity

I recently used PubNub to implement a realtime leaderboard into my Unity game. It was easy and straight forward to get up and running. I choose Pubnub because they had a Unity SDK and an example project which showed me how to use it. I downloaded the example project and tweaked it to fit my game.

In their documentation I found good information about what I needed to know. Also, their support is very helpful when you have questions.

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Volkan Özçelik
Volkan Özçelik

Chief Executive Philosopher

Jan 12, 2019

Needs adviceonPubNubPubNub

Using websockets is something, scaling a message pipeline to thousands of concurrent connections is something else.

I trust PubNub with what it does best, and use it as zerotoherojs.com ’s messaging pipeline.

With PubNub, I have one less problem to think about. PubNub

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Obsaa Abdalhalim
Obsaa Abdalhalim

CEO, Founder

Dec 5, 2018

Needs adviceonReact NativeReact NativeNativeBaseNativeBaseredux-sagaredux-saga

React Native NativeBase redux-saga Apollo GraphQL Node.js PostGraphile PostgreSQL PubNub . @PLAID Dwolla.js . Zube GitHub Yarn npm AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Jason Curry
Jason Curry

CEO at Flutter Health Inc.

May 18, 2018

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Flutter uses PubNub for sending push notifications when the users add new posts to the Flutter Community or leave comments. PubNub

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