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PubNub vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

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Arctera Insight Platform
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Data Governance (61st), Compliance Management (31st)
PubNub
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8.0
Number of Reviews
6
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AWS Marketplace (13th)
Upbound Crossplane
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8.4
Number of Reviews
6
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AWS Marketplace (9th)
 

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Kirtishil Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Frontend Developer at Globant
Real-time chat has boosted one-to-one messaging and user engagement in my mobile projects
The best features PubNub offers, in my opinion, are one-to-one chat, as I mentioned in my review, and the great SDK documentation which allows for easy integration that does not take much time. Setting up channels, message listeners, tracking user status to determine whether users are online or offline, and ensuring reliable message delivery are all great features. I find myself relying on all three of those features the most because the presence tracking is great, the delivery speed is superb compared to other SDKs, and the user status updates immediately pop up, which is significant. The integration is very easy, so any new developers can easily understand the integration process thanks to the clear documentation. PubNub has positively impacted my organization as I have received numerous reviews and feedback stating that the chat works much faster and cleaner, and everyone appreciates it, saying it feels powerful. After implementing PubNub, I noticed positive outcomes such as client feedback acknowledging that they enjoyed the chat features and found them much faster than in other applications, which I believe is very positive feedback for any organization.
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.
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Manufacturing Company
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Construction Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Comms Service Provider
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Financial Services Firm
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubNub?
PubNub costs less compared to other solutions in the market, saving us money when broadcasting messages to clients. T...
What needs improvement with PubNub?
The subscription and the SDK part can be improved. If the client is offline and the application is killed, and the us...
What is your primary use case for PubNub?
We are mostly using PubNub for payload sending and for live chat. We are a mobile-based application with an admin sid...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
The documentation and learning curve for Upbound Crossplane were really smooth initially to set up. However, our use ...
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows. In the open source Upbound Crossplane, ...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
My main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that initially we were frustrated with using Terraform, and right now all ...
 

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