Case Study: vFairs achieves scalable real-time event chat with PubNub

vFairs saves 75% in dev time with PubNub

vFairs, a virtual events platform, needed a highly reliable and scalable real-time chat solution to make their online conferences and trade shows as engaging as in-person events. Their previous in-house chat system had a breaking point and could not handle large surges of concurrent users, which was a major problem as their business grew. They turned to PubNub to implement an in-app chat service.

By implementing PubNub's real-time chat, vFairs was able to provide attendees with private messaging, group chats, and presence indicators. The solution reliably scaled to meet a 40x increase in business, handling thousands of simultaneous users with no outages. This switch saved vFairs 75% in development time previously spent maintaining their chat infrastructure.

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