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Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Post by dergraf »

5l wrote: post #26
dergraf wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans. As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct-…

Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.

wow, that's great to know! let us know if we can help you to get started with your apps!

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Post by dergraf »

pc86 wrote: post #29
dergraf wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans. As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct-…

Tambur.io looks great. Another alternative if someone is looking for hosted SSL on a free plan would be Buddy http://www.buddy.com/pricing/ , free for the first half million API calls with unlimited applications. Pretty steep at $250/mo for 500,001-10MM calls.

we didn't know about buddy.com, but it is good to see a trend towards 'security included' ;)

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Post by macspoofing »

afaict wrote: post #28
pc86 wrote: post #27

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This is an important question I think should be answered

Well, I can't describe all the services you listed - we didn't even know all of them. We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend, but I'm not denying there is similarity to other push services (hope they have tons of customers :)

>We started by really focusing on websockets

Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if underneath it uses, flash sockets or web-sockets or comet or ajax or a combination of all or black magic?

>We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend.

So is there any reason why someone would choose you guys over the others (most of whom support Web and Mobile clients)?

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Post by afaict »

macspoofing wrote: post #33
afaict wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I can't describe all the services you listed - we didn't even know all of them. We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend, but I'm not denying there is similarity to other push services (hope they have tons of customers :)

>We started by really focusing on websockets Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if un…

Even if the market is there & competition is good: You are right, tough question, because from a marketing angle this IS a black magic perspective. Def. need to work on differentiation, clearer value proposition etc. & not switching instantly to tech explanation or mentioning future plans and additions [which we have].

So…choose Tambur to make us learn more… ;) it IS a learning experience & we are thankful for all comments here

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Post by traderd65 »

andypants wrote: post #13

Does this have any special features compared to pusher, pubnub, etc.?

SSL is certainly important for a lot of apps handling sensitive data (as well as AES: http://blog.pubnub.com/pubnub-adds-cross-platform-aes-symmet...). It of course has to (and does) work seamlessly with PubNub Channel Presence, Message History and other features of the real-time messaging infrastructure. The key to providing an affordable pay-as-you-go pricing plan is scale, whereby fixed costs of the globally-deployed messaging infrastructure are amortized across thousands of apps, millions of concurrent users and billions of sent and received messages: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pubnub-cloud-exceeds-1-million.... More info available at help.pubnub.com FAQs.
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