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Using AI Agent Skills: Build an iOS Chat Messaging App With a Single Prompt

As developers, we typically spend time reading docs and tutorials, and watching YouTube videos to integrate APIs and SDKs to add specific functionality to apps and services. These integrations can now be completed much more quickly using AI Agent Skills. Agent Skills are sets of instructions, scripts, and reference documents that equip AI models to

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Stream's AI Moderation Roadmap: What We're Building Next

Moderation has quietly become one of the hardest problems in modern apps. As chat, feeds, and real-time video interactions expand globally, the challenge isn't just catching bad content; it's doing it in real time, across languages, with context, and at scale. At Stream, we've been investing deeply in solving that problem. This roadmap is a

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Vibe Coding Got You 80%. Here's What the Last 20% Actually Takes.

You might remember Moltbook, a vibe-coded social network for AI agents that fell apart within a week because messages weren't private and there was no moderation. This piece is about the gap between a vibe-coded demo and a production-ready real-time feature, and why AI tools can't close it for you.

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Scaling Real-Time Chat to 5 Million Users: Stream's Latest Benchmarks

Stream has achieved a leading industry benchmark in scaling real-time chat as-a-service, supporting 5 million concurrent connections in a single chat channel. This engineering achievement underscores Stream Chat's position as the preferred in-app chat provider for enterprise organizations hosting the world's largest online events. Stream's infrastructure currently powers messaging and activity feed experiences for more

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Prediction Markets Have a Trust Problem. Here's How to Solve It.

In under two years, prediction markets went from a niche corner of the internet for political junkies to platforms with sportsbook-level engagement. Kalshi and Polymarket alone have hit millions of monthly active users. For most industries, that growth curve gets a headline and a victory lap. For anyone responsible for trust and safety, it's the exact scenario that keeps them up at night.

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How Does Zoom Work? Architecture Deep Dive

When Zoom first appeared, it seemed almost magical. Before Zoom, video conferencing was a hassle. Skype was all frozen frames, and Google Hangouts degraded fast past three or four participants. Zoom just worked. Without even needing to log in, you could click a link and be in a meeting a few seconds later. It was magical, but none of it was magic.

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Stream Expands Its Presence in Latin America

Stream, the leading provider of scalable chat, video, feeds, and moderation APIs, is deepening its investment in Latin America. The region is home to some of the fastest-growing mobile apps in the world, and companies like Globo, Mango App, Hotmart, EF Executive Language Institute, Fretebras, and TradersClubSA already rely on Stream to power messaging and video experiences for millions of users across Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and beyond.

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Inside Stream's Real-Time Architecture for Trading & Investing Apps

How Stream's chat, feeds, and video infrastructure is built to hold up under trading-app load, from market open to a widely held stock's earnings release.

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Care.com Scales Chat & Cuts Messaging Bugs by 90% with Stream

Care.com moved off a homegrown messaging stack and onto Stream, cutting bugs by up to 90% while scaling chat and video for 1M+ users.

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Feeds v3: New Features & Stronger Performance

Feeds v3 loads up to 300% faster than v2 and adds For You feeds, Stories, polls, nested comments, and built-in moderation. See what's new.

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Build Your Own Grok Bot With Core AI Models and Stream Chat

Build a human-AI team chat with free, open-source, local, and on-device models.

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Nomadtable Grows Messages 7,536% with Stream Chat

Jay was working as a software engineer when he took the solo trip that led to Nomadtable. He intentionally stayed at hostels to meet other travelers, but found many of them quiet and unsociable. While it was frustrating in the moment, it led to an idea, why not build an app that allows travelers to connect abroad? He quit his job and gave himself a year to build it.

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