September 2013 Summaries

WebSockets serve as a protocol for enabling real-time data communication between a server and client through a persistent connection, but deploying and scaling this technology can be complex. PubNub enhances WebSockets by providing a set of real-time services such as publish/subscribe messaging, presence awareness, data storage, playback, analytics, and security features, which are built on top of persistent socket connections. These services are designed to address the challenges of maintaining a reliable real-time system, including network redundancy, geographic server distribution, latency monitoring, and handling operational complexities like data center failures and internet disruptions. The PubNub Data Stream Network offers a globally distributed infrastructure, ensuring reliable and seamless message delivery, even in varied network conditions, allowing developers to focus on enhancing their application's core features without being bogged down by the intricacies of real-time infrastructure management.

PubNub, a company that developed a real-time network to simplify the creation, deployment, and scaling of real-time applications for developers, has announced a successful Series B funding round, securing $11 million led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Relay Ventures and TiE Angels. Since its inception in 2009, PubNub has achieved a 200-fold increase in traffic over the past 18 months and now supports thousands of applications, streaming over three million messages per second to more than 100 million devices monthly. The newly acquired funding will be used to expand PubNub's international presence by enhancing its sales and marketing efforts and continuing to innovate its platform for developing real-time applications. The company acknowledges the complexity and cost of building real-time experiences with traditional web architecture and aims to alleviate these challenges, expressing gratitude to its customers and the global developer community for their support and contributions.

RabbitMQ is an open-source implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard, primarily used for server-to-server communication to enhance message delivery resilience and control. With the increasing adoption of cloud deployments, there is a growing need to extend RabbitMQ's reach to web clients, which presents challenges in scaling, security, and managing diverse devices. The solution involves integrating PubNub as a secure connection gateway, allowing RabbitMQ to maintain its usual operation while PubNub handles security, availability, reliability, and scalability concerns in the cloud. By utilizing PubNub's adapters, messages can be sent and received in real-time between RabbitMQ and web clients, supported by business logic to filter and qualify messages. This integration is open-source, allowing users to extend or modify it to suit their needs, effectively bridging RabbitMQ's capabilities to the web with minimal effort and without altering existing RabbitMQ deployments.