August 2017 Summaries

PubNub has announced its completion of the SOC 2 Type I audit, making it the largest real-time provider to achieve this certification, which is significant as it addresses the growing demand for infrastructure that meets trust and transparency standards. The SOC 2 certification confirms that PubNub meets the security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy standards set by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), thereby allowing businesses using PubNub's infrastructure to assure their clients of its compliance. Beyond SOC 2 compliance, PubNub has implemented several security measures, such as data encryption, HIPAA compliance, regional data storage for PII, intelligent data routing, and adherence to EU Standard Contractual Clauses, to ensure the integrity and security of its service delivery environment.

The tutorial provides a guide on creating a real-time progress bar using PubNub to stream status updates, showcasing a practical application beyond static JavaScript progress bars by integrating dynamic updates for uses like IoT sensor data, chatroom capacity, or file uploads. It includes the use of a Node.js script to simulate file upload progress, sending percentage data to a 'progress-bar' channel every five seconds, and a simple HTML template with jQuery and PubNub CDNs to visualize the progress. The JavaScript is primarily responsible for the animation of a circular progress bar, subscribing to the PubNub channel to receive and render progress updates, highlighting the potential of real-time updates in web applications.

Mnubo's IoT analytics platform provides product manufacturers with the tools to ingest, analyze, and derive insights from connected product data using automated reports and dashboards. This tutorial demonstrates how to track and display IoT events using a real-time Angular2 web application and the mnubo SmartObjects block, leveraging prebuilt functions from the PubNub BLOCKS Catalog to run serverless functions. The tutorial walks through setting up the necessary components, including obtaining developer keys, initializing the mnubo API, and creating serverless code with PubNub, to streamline the process of adding IoT event ingestion capabilities. The guide also covers the integration of JavaScript dependencies and Angular2 for building a user interface that displays real-time IoT data. Additionally, it highlights mnubo's features like IoT product sessions, asset scoring, and custom dashboards, which facilitate understanding of product usage, customer engagement, and operational insights. The tutorial concludes by encouraging further exploration of mnubo's integration features and additional web service APIs in future articles.