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Manage Pusher Serverless Functions from the Dashboard

The Pusher dashboard has been updated to integrate Serverless Functions. You can programmatically respond to events, handle real-time tasks, and manage functions without navigating the intricacies of serverless infrastructure, directly from the Pusher Dashboard.

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PusherJS: Updates to improve reconnection and transport caching strategy

New in 8.2.0, unlimited WebSocket retries for smooth operation. 8.3.0 brings enhanced reconnection and transport caching. Explore our latest improvements!

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How to implement HTTP request retry policies

HTTP requests are always at risk of failure. No matter how highly available both the source and destination hosts are, the request can still encounter an issue in the intermediary network that you have no control over. Given this, it makes sense to devise an HTTP request retry strategy. You want to ensure systems can handle and recover from unexpected failures when making HTTP requests.

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How the Pusher team built subscription counting at scale

How the Pusher dev team built large presence views for realtime users in Pusher channels.

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How to serve initial state by retrieving cached live data from an application

Find our how your application server is now able to retrieve the current cached data and define its time to live (TTL) using our HTTP API through our server SDKs.

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Build an app with information-rich “Who’s online” feature

Here’s how to build apps with the who’s online feature using Pusher Presence channels and User Authentication.

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Announcing the new React Native SDK for Pusher Channels!

Using Pusher Channels, you can build React Native applications with realtime infrastructure for your app. Without the need for external dependencies. Check out the React Native SDK on Pusher docs.

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Re-engineering a Pusher app to serve initial state with cache channels

Learn how to re-engineer your existing Pusher Channels apps to serve initial state using our new channel type, cache channels.

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Building user-centric applications with Pusher's new users concept

A new user-centric model for Pusher Channels. Send realtime server messages to individuals and terminate connections for malicious users.

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Announcing NEW Flutter SDKs for Channels and Beams

Our official Flutter SDKs for both Channels and Beams are now live.

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Continuous releases with GitHub Actions

Find out how we used GitHub Actions to automate our release process, replacing rigorous process and removing headaches for the team.

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Keeping things private: Authentication vs. Authorization

When building private channels in your app, understanding authentication vs authorization is vital to sending sensitive information to the right users only.

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Publish events to server-side Swift applications with the new Channels SDK

Use of server-side Swift has become more widespread in recent years. Our new Swift server SDK will allow you to trigger events and fetch realtime information on your Swift server apps.

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How we built push notification delivery for Safari users on Beams

Delivering push notifications to Safari is very different to other browsers. Find out how we implemented Safari support for Pusher Beams.

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How we made our documentation easier to maintain

We migrated our documentation to markdown for more inclusive and collaborative editing, making updates more efficient for our users.

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Counting connections at scale

Building connection counting in a scaleable way is tricky. Find out how we fixed a meandering solution by leveraging our HTTP API processes.

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Breaking realtime records with The Washington Post election coverage

How The Washington Post broke realtime records by using WebSockets to deliver the 2020 US Presidential Election results to global readers.

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Polish your asynchronous code with Promises in Node.js

Take advantage of promises in our Node.js library for graceful asynchronous programming and refined serverless implementation on Channels.

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NWWebSocket: a flexible, native WebSocket client for Swift developers

NWWebSocket is a fully native and highly flexible WebSocket client for Swift developers to use in their apps. Powered by the Pusher team.

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Channels iOS Swift v9.0.0: Refreshing the SDK with a flexible, native WebSocket client

With Channels iOS Swift SDK v9.0.0 we've implemented a native WebSocket client to tackle closed connection troubleshooting and speed up future development.

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