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Build scalable feeds, activity streams & chat in a few hours instead of months.

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.

Developers
136 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stream.

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.
Pros of Stream
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Up and running in few minutes
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Integrates via easy-to-use REST API
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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.

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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.

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Vamsee Voleti
Product Manager at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 86.9K views
Shared insights
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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.

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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?
Postman
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Postman
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Stack Overflow
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Google Maps
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Elasticsearch
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Stream's Followers
224 developers follow Stream to keep up with related blogs and decisions.