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Amazon IVS makes it easy to embed Twitch-style live streaming into your app. You get managed ingest, global playback, and low-latency delivery without building video infrastructure from scratch. For one-to-many broadcasts, it works. Where teams start looking for alternatives is when those defaults become constraints. IVS is tightly coupled to AWS, optimized for broadcast, and

Marketplaces only work when people trust each other. Buyers trust that listings accurately represent what they’re purchasing. Sellers trust they won’t be scammed, harassed, or pushed off the platform by bad actors. And both trust that the marketplace itself is actively protecting them, not reacting after damage is already done. As marketplaces scale, maintaining that

Stream has reached a major milestone in activity feed infrastructure, successfully benchmarking over 37 million operations with a 10% write and 90% read workload distribution across a dataset of 100M users, 500M activities, and 200M follow relationships. Each scenario was tested at 500, 1,000, and 1,500 requests per second to measure performance under increasing load.

Stream has reached a major milestone in real-time video infrastructure: Successfully scaling a single WebRTC-based livestream to 100,000 concurrent participants while maintaining ultra-low latency, stable frame rates, and zero packet loss. Today, Stream powers real-time chat, activity feeds, moderation, audio, and video for applications serving over one billion end users worldwide, backed by a 99.999%

Adding real-time video and audio to an app sounds straightforward, but quickly becomes complex once you factor in latency, device support, scaling, and operational overhead. Most teams turn to a video SDK rather than building this infrastructure from scratch. If you’re evaluating SDKs, Daily.co and Stream are two commonly considered options. This post breaks down

An activity feed is an in-app feature that can take many forms, such as a news feed, content recommendations, or timeline in social and community-based applications. When successfully integrated, they can increase your app's user engagement and retention rates while lowering customer acquisition costs (CAC). But before realizing the full value of an activity feed,

Content moderation is the invisible infrastructure of the web. Every message sent, image uploaded, livestream broadcast, and marketplace listing posted passes through moderation systems that determine whether it reaches its intended audience. Get it right, and your platform becomes a thriving community where users feel safe to connect, transact, and create. Get it wrong, and

Adding in-app chat is one of the most common (and underestimated) product decisions teams face. Today, AI has made it easier than ever to prototype messaging features quickly. A small team can scaffold a working chat experience in days, not months. But shipping a demo is not the same as running a production chat system.