Why developers like Stream

What is Stream?

Stream allows you to build scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat. Stream’s simple, yet powerful API’s and SDKs are used by some of the largest and most popular applications for feeds and chat. SDKs available for most popular languages.

Stream is a tool in the Activity Feeds as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Stream?

Companies

59 companies reportedly use Stream in their tech stacks, including StackShare, Bunch, and Backend.

StackShare

Bunch

Backend

Dubsmash

Zola

The Lonero Foundation

Nuxeo

Realtime

IBM Cloud Private

Developers

136 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stream.

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My Stack

My Everyday Stack

Nanotizer

La Bringue

NFSe Belo Horizonte

Stream Integrations

Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, and Django are some of the popular tools that integrate with Stream. Here's a list of all 18 tools that integrate with Stream.

Python

Node.js

Java

PHP

Django

Ruby

Laravel

Heroku

Golang

Pros of Stream

Up and running in few minutes

Integrates via easy-to-use REST API

It's easy to setup with the minimum coding

Decisions about Stream

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Stream in their tech stack.

Tom Mumford

Jan 16, 2023 | 6 upvotes · 29.1K views

Needs advice

Chat by Stream

and

SendBird

I am interested in using a chat SDK for a community mobile Flutter app. I am between SendBird and Stream. I currently have 2,000 monthly active users and plan to have close to 5,000 active users chatting on the app. Has anyone used either and had good/bad experiences? Currently, there is no chat functionality, and we would like to have a 1-to-1 user chat, group chat, and large community chat capabilities.

Vamsee Voleti

Product Manager at StackShare · Dec 3, 2018 | 4 upvotes · 86.7K views

Shared insights

StackShare

As we strive to show fresh, popular and relevant content to our users, one of the problems we faced when developing Stack Decisions was to show a feed with more than one activity type. We show Decisions, News Articles, and Stories on our feed and composing them in a single feed proved to be a challenge.

We solved this problem using Stream's personalization feature to build a scalable activity feed. As the parameters that determine popularity vary for different activity types, Stream helped us normalize the popularity scores and aggregate the feed.

#ActivityFeedsAsAService

Build News Feeds and Activity Streams with Ruby

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Blog Posts

How Stream Built a Modern RSS Reader With JavaScript

Jun 19 2018 at 3:02AM

Stream

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Stream & Go: News Feeds for Over 300 Million End Users

Jan 18 2018 at 7:43AM

Stream

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Dubsmash: Scaling To 200 Million Users With 3 Engineers

Dec 14 2017 at 10:02AM

Dubsmash

+47

72668

Stream's Features

Activity, Notification & Personalized Feeds
Real-Time Chat
Multi-Region Support
High Availability
SDKs & Components

Stream Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Stream?

JavaScript

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Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

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Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

jQuery

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