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Smacktive Creates Social Discovery Android and iOS Chat

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Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Carroll
Word Count
920
Company Posts That Month
10
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Post removed?
No
Summary

Smacktive, a social discovery app launched in New York City on October 8, aims to foster meaningful friendships through activities like sports and games, using a user-friendly interface and PubNub's publish/subscribe architecture to manage real-time data streams for scalability. As the app's user base grows, it leverages PubNub's global platform with 15 redundant data centers to handle the O(n²) messaging pathways efficiently, shifting the burden of infrastructure from the app's hardware to PubNub's cloud, thereby enhancing reliability and performance during high traffic periods. Additionally, PubNub Storage and Playback feature allows users to maintain conversation history without requiring server storage, while PubNub Channel Multiplexing facilitates multiple simultaneous conversations over a single TCP socket, simplifying chat functionality integration for iOS developers using the PubNub SDK.

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