# Overview

## Best practices

Guides for integrating Activity Feeds at scale, with a focus on performance, reliability, and cost.

### Performance

- [Performance overview](/activity-feeds/docs/node/performance/)
- [Hot feed cache](/activity-feeds/docs/node/hot-feed-cache/)

### Related guides

- [Architecture & Benchmark](/activity-feeds/docs/node/architecture/) for how Stream achieves low latency at scale
- [Rate limits](/activity-feeds/docs/node/rate-limits/) when requests are throttled or return `429`


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This page was last updated at 2026-07-03T16:22:12.574Z.

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