PubNub BLOCKS: Streaming Data Enhanced with Watson - Watson

March 6, 2017 Written by: Susan C. Daffron If you've had to deal with managing streaming data, maybe you've heard of PubNub. Now it's easy to add Watson-powered machine intelligence to those streams with BLOCKS, a feature of the PubNub Data Stream Network (DSN) that makes the network programmable. Using BLOCKS, developers can easily deploy functions on the PubNub network to modify messages without the need to manage their own infrastructure. In a new episode of the Building with Watson webinar series, Josh Marinacci, Head of Developer Relations at PubNub demonstrates how he used the Watson Conversation PubNub BLOCK to build a geology-themed chatbot called Mr. Rockbot. When you're building a chatbot, you need to remember that a chatbot involves constant communication between the user and your bot. To tie these elements together, you'll need a real-time, low-latency and high security infrastructure.