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SXSW Opens Voting for 2013 Speakers
Last year at SXSW we brought together minds from Google, ExactTarget, Atimi and Urban Airship in a session called SoLoMo Redefined – Next Gen Social Local Mobile. The Vancouver Sun called it the session of the day. We are back for 2013 with the next chapter in the SoLoMo story. Now that companies are working tirelessly to deliver on location-based mobile messaging and alerts, consumers are speaking out to say Don’t Advertaze Me Bro! Is your business creating a smart...
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Prepping for Olympics Mobile Gold
The London Olympics have been called both the first social and the first second screen Games, and if the numbers are any indication, both the access to mobile content and the level of device usage will be unlike anything we’ve ever seen. eMarketer projects at least a quarter of the expected audience of 4 billion for the London Olympics will be on PCs and mobile devices including phones and tablets. Back in 2008 for the Beijing Games, three-quarters of those surveyed by Nielsen said...
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Building Mobile Infrastructure with HBase
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak at HBase Con 2012 about Urban Airship’s experience deploying a high write environment in HBase, including mistakes to avoid, and tips and open source utilities you can use to diagnose and debug performance bottlenecks. The performance demands of mobile infrastructure are similar to any large web site with the added complexities of serving multiple different mobile OSes, maintaining open connections to hundreds of millions of devices and a frontend...
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Scaling Urban Airship’s Messaging Infrastructure to Light Up a Stadium in One Second
More than two years ago we embarked on a journey to bring our push infrastructure to Android and tackle the world of high scalability for mobile apps. We’ve detailed some of our past achievements like C500k in past blog entries. We’ve more than quadrupled the performance reported in that post, and have moved on to address the rest of our infrastructure as we march towards supporting billions of connected devices. We’re now focused on finishing a massive rework of our messaging...
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OS X Mountain Lion’s Notification Center
Last week Apple announced a developer preview for their new OS X version, Mountain Lion, and one of the most talked about features is the Notification Center, which takes the system-wide notification system added in iOS 5.0 and extends it to the Mac. While Apple added push notification capability to Mac apps in its prior OS X update, in Mountain Lion the Notification Center makes notifications much more useful with built-in alerting and a centralized roll-up for messages you might have missed....
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Building a Culture That Counts
Startups are some of the most amazing organizations on earth. You come together with a group of people to create something from nothing. It’s stressful, insanely difficult and it consumes you completely. Maintaining momentum and focus, as well as keeping it all together during the good and the bad, is the role of culture at your company. I've worked at a lot of different companies over the years and have seen a lot that has worked and quite a bit that hasn’t. I wanted to take a...
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Inside Urban Airship Engineering: Achieving Massive Scale and Value
This is the first in a series of posts that explores some of the things we’re doing behind the scenes in Urban Airship Engineering. Over the next few months, members of the engineering team will offer insight into how we operate, lessons we’ve learned, open source projects we have created and some of the challenges we face serving hundreds of millions of instances of apps connecting to our services every day. Culturally and from a process standpoint, Urban Airship Engineering is...
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