Stephen Blum, Founder and CTO of PubNub, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Blum's vision and strong technical chops drove the initial architecture of PubNub, building a core engine that has successfully scaled to the some of the largest real-time deployments in the world. Blum has been a successful software entrepreneur his whole life, starting his first company, LTSun, at age 17, and joining Microsoft after its acquisition. He was also the Chief Architect for TrustedOpinion.com, a 50-language social recommendations site that grew to over 1 million users across over 100 countries.
PubNub operates a Data Stream Network, which connects, delivers, and controls the data and logic used to power real-time applications at global scale for thousands of companies around the world including Peloton, Atlassian, and athenahealth. Combining over 70 SDKs, a global network, and blazing fast serverless edge computing, PubNub delivers twice as many messages each day as the global SMS network. Founded in 2010, PubNub is a Silicon Valley technology company backed by leading investors including Relay Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, Bosch, Ericsson, and HPE.