Seabeyond: ProcessOne Realtime conference Programme

SeaBeyond is ProcessOne tech conference on real time and messaging technologies. The third edition will happen in Paris on the 2014, December 4th. The “sandbox” is an open discussion and hacking period happening during the day. We propose to cover the following topics: Developing for ejabberd XMPP SaaS Beacons and real time services As a […]

Making messaging ubiquitous: ProcessOne launching ejabberd SaaS offering

From ICQ launch in 1996 to Whatsapp acquisition by Facebook in 2014, instant messaging has come a long way. Realtime messaging is now ubiquitous. There is tens of messaging clients on mobile app stores for iOS and Android. And this does not even count the products that have added messaging as a convenience feature for […]

Sea Beyond 2014: ProcessOne Tech Event for Mobile Realtime

I am very pleased to announce date and venue for our third iteration of our tech event on mobile and realtime. Sea Beyond event will happen on the 4th of december 2014. This year focus is “Real-time Technologies for Push and Chat on Mobile”. As during previous edition, we have split the schedule in two […]

TextOne 4.0.0 released

We just released a new version of TextOne iOS messaging client. This is a version improving compliance with iOS 7 (and introduce a new and lighter design). It also improves networking stack and time to connect / retrieve messages. It also fixes a long standing crash issue on launch that could sometime happen. It can […]

ejabberd Community 14.07

Two months after the previous huge release, we are keeping the pace with a new feature packed version. We added major improvements regarding to SIP support, Carbon copy, stream management and added Riak as a new supported database. ejabberd Community 14.07 includes several improvements and many bugfixes over the previous 14.05 release: SIP SIP Outbound […]

GigaOM releases report on brand engagement through in-app communication

Mobile apps now allow businesses to be more responsive to users than ever before, but this interaction has created new customer expectations. While a mobile app must fulfill its core function, it must also continue a dialog with its users to remain relevant. Doing so requires ongoing, intelligent, targeted outreach to customers and an extension […]

Cardinality Estimation

In server world, we always need to maintain some metrics; We need to measure to improve. A very common one being “unique active user” per unit of time. While this is really easy to describe, it’s complex when it comes to implementation. Naive implementation logs all events (let say, user connection), either on memory or […]

Google I/O: A couple of days with an Android Watch

I was at Google I/O conference during the past week. I will not yet comment on the overall tone of the conference, as I need to give it more thought. However, I can comment on the Smartwatch Google gave to Google I/O attendees. I picked LG Watch and gave a try over two days on […]

A week at Apple WWDC – early thoughts

I have spent the past week in San Francisco at Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference). It was the richest and more energetic WWDC I have ever participated in. Apple announced a lot of new features that are going to benefit our XMPP and push platforms for iOS and our mobile software. But, as I still […]

Boxcar Large Scale Developer Push Service Available to All Developers

ProcessOne and Boxcar have been building push services for real-time notifications since the launch of the push feature on iOS. Our core business has been since that time to deploy large scale notification services for carriers, broadcasters, ensuring very high availability, very fast delivery in a cost-effective way. A massive scale push service now available […]

Releasing Enhanced Security Debian AMI

We have decided to share with AWS community our basic linux platform. It is based on Debian and includes some security enhancements, that comes from integrating grsecurity into kernel. Previously i have released only kernel builds known as ESK kernel, now we are presenting whole Debian that includes following changes: ESK kernel 3.2.58 gradm 3.0 […]

ejabberd Community 14.05

ejabberd Community 14.05: the culmination of a year of change Before getting into technical details of version 14.05 changes, let’s summarize an amazing year of ejabberd development. Last year we made major changes in our development, release and support process. ejabberd now has two faces: ejabberd community is now improving at a very fast pace […]

ProcessOne Founder is named as one of 100 Key French Developers

I am very proud to have been named in Tariq Krim report for the government: “Les développeurs, un atout pour la France” (Developers are a key asset for France). Even more that being mentioned in this report, I am happy to see the will to emphasize the importance of software for a country economy. The […]

Whatsapp, Facebook, Erlang and realtime messaging: It all started with ejabberd

There has been a lot of buzz recently around Whatsapp acquisition by Facebook and the record price paid for the company. FastCompany’s Ainsley O’Connell wrote Inside Erlang, The Rare Programming Language Behind WhatsApp’s Success, giving some technical background around the story. As the founder of leading instant messaging technology provider developed in Erlang, I want […]