SSE WebSockets vs. Server-Sent Events (SSEs) This blog post compares two similar technologies: WebSockets and SSEs. We'll describe their similarities and differences. Next, we'll look at best use cases for both. Finally, we’ll have a look at the
Chat iOS Chat Tutorial: Building A Realtime Messaging App One thing that can differentiate your app from other apps on the market is building in chat functionality. Online marketplaces, social networks and collaboration tools can all benefit from in-app chat. Your users
SOLID Principles for Becoming a Better iOS/Swift Developer While SOLID might be old (at least in internet years), they're one of those evergreen pieces of advice that go beyond language or platform specifics. SOLID is an acronym that stands for five
SSE Getting to know Server-Sent Events (SSE) Internet technology uses a request/response paradigm that enables a client to request for information and a server to respond. WebSockets, polling and Server-Sent Events are three different technologies that define how browser
Tutorials React Native Maps Tutorial: Find My Friends In this tutorial, we're going to be building a "Find My Friends"-like app using React Native, react-native-maps and the Scaledrone React Native client. You can find the full source code
Tutorials iOS Accessibility Tutorial: Tips on Making Your App More Accessible Accessibility is one of those things that always seem to be at the bottom of the priority list for iOS apps. At first sight, making your app accessible seems like a lot of
Introduction to WebSockets This blog post explains what WebSockets are, what they do, what type of applications use WebSockets and why web developers need abstraction libraries for applications that use WebSockets.
Tutorials FIFA 2018 World Cup Live Map Using Twitter and Scaledrone As the FIFA World Cup has just ended, we decided to put Scaledrone for a spin and created a live map visualising FIFA tweets all over the world. Here is the snap of
What’s new in Python 3 At the time of writing Python 2 is still in use, but it's a good idea to upgrade to Python 3 or make your project available for both versions. January 1, 2020, is
Tutorials Text to Speech Using AWS Polly Serverless is the latest buzz among the modern application development. The most generic way to explain serverless is to get away with the regular always-running applications and instead focus on run-on-demand applications (besides
Product Updates JavaScript Library Updates Over the past few weeks, we have been making updates to the JavaScript library. These improvements will make your life easier when integrating with Scaledrone. All of the changes are backwards compatible, offering
Tutorials Facebook Pixel Tracking Across Multiple Domains A typical situation for a SaaS website is to have your public web on www.companyname.com and have your actual app on app.companyname.com. This approach makes sense for many best
Android Android Chat Tutorial: Building A Realtime Messaging App In this tutorial, we're going to be building a realtime group chat for Android using the Scaledrone Java API Client. It will work very similarly to apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messager and
Tutorials Automated UI testing with Nightmare At Scaledrone we put a heavy emphasis on testing. While our backend is well tested, the website has been lacking in testing for a while. In past projects, we have used Capybara for
Product Updates New Authentication Option We've added a new authentication option to your Scaledrone channels. The new option is half-way between the current no-authentication and full-authentication options. The new authentication option requires users to authenticate themselves for publishing
Tutorials GraphQL Tutorial: Using Github GraphQL API with Node.js As of API v4 Github is using GraphQL as a query language for their API. This gives the users more power and flexibility to ask exactly what they need from the API (it
WebRTC WebRTC Chat Tutorial This tutorial will teach you: The basics of WebRTC How to create a 1-on-1 text chat where users can enter their username and be assigned a random emoji avatar How to use RTCDataChannel
WebRTC WebRTC Tutorial: Simple video chat This tutorial will teach you: The basics of WebRTC How to create a 1on1 video chat How to use Scaledrone for signaling so that no server coding is needed Check out the live
Go Creating an API Client in Go When consuming a REST API it's a good practice to write an API Client (API Wrapper) for yourself or your own REST API, so other users could more easily access it. Fortunately, Go
Tutorials Real-time notifications from systemd to Slack We released the current version of Scaledrone over two years ago in Fall 2014. We were ramping up, trying to make a name for ourselves and got some sizeable customers on board. As
Tutorials JavaScript chat room tutorial We're going to be building a real-time JavaScript chat room similar to Twitch.tv's chat using JavaScript and Scaledrone realtime messaging service. The app is going to be using Websockets on modern browsers
Handling EU VAT for Stripe and Braintree Handling VAT taxation is something all European SaaS startups and companies have to go through at some point. Some time ago ScaleDrone became VAT eligible and we decided to go through the hassle
Node.js From Node.js to Go Last month Scaledrone migrated all websocket servers from Node.js to Go. We are a realtime messaging company so using the best possible websocket solution is vital to us. We started playing around
Product Updates Planned Server Transfer on April 13th, 2016 On Wednesday April 16th, 2016 16:00 UTC ScaleDrone is planning on replacing all our current Websocket servers with newer ones. The new servers are completely rewritten from the ground up and will
6 Use Cases For Real-time Data Real-time data is no longer a luxury, but neccessity for making the user feel engaged and in control. Here are some examples of how you can use it on your own site. 1.
