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PubNub Mothership Case Study
PubNub Mothership Case Study
Jacob Richards
Staff Software Engineer
Mothership
Mothership CASE STUDY
Meet Mothership
“For our mobile app, PubNub powers implementation process and the ability to easily
everything,” said Richards. “Being able to integrate PubNub into their existing tech stack
hook these real-time data changes into any made the choice of partnering with PubNub clear.
of our services and push that data out on our
client-side application is essential. “PubNub Providing real-time visibility into
also supports our backend event-driven freight delivery
architecture, as we can subscribe to changes
in relevant domains, then push those changes Since using PubNub, Mothership has been able
out to the clients via PubNub.” to push out real-time data to assets and scale
their platform with ease. Mothership also has
Quickly iterating on their mobile access to Datadog dashboards, which allows
app them to monitor PubNub behavior and to be
alerted if any issues arise. This provides them
Before partnering with PubNub, Mothership with real-time visibility, allowing their team to
relied very heavily on other solutions in order actively find and solve problems, like ensuring
to handle these real-time data changes, such that freight gets picked up and delivered on
as direct database change subscriptions, time.
which result in a tight coupling between client-
side applications and backend data schemas. Looking to the future as Mothership’s usage
But as they grew from 10 engineers to 30 continues to grow, Richards and his team are
engineers—supporting hundreds of shipments confident that PubNub will be able to reliably
booked per second—they wanted to be able power their real-time needs. “With PubNub,
to focus their development efforts on iterating we have the ability to do whatever fetching
their mobile app more quickly and supporting or data materialization that we need to do on
their continued growth. the backend, and push exactly what we need
into PubNub,” said Richards. “In the future, I’m
“Just looking at all the technology out there, excited to explore the other functionality that
PubNub really fit the bill just because it was PubNub offers.”
plug-and-play,” said Richards. After surveying
different solutions, Richards and his team If you would like to learn how PubNub can help
built out a proof of concept mobile app and you power your platform with reliable, real-time
corresponding backend services with PubNub. features—get in touch with our team of experts.
Once doing so, the team found that the simple