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Product: Feeds

Scaling Activity Feeds to 100M Users: Stream’s Latest Benchmarks

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.
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Build vs. Buy Activity Feeds: Compare Costs & Trade-Offs

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,
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6 Lessons From TikTok’s Feed That Any App Can Use

TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the world, ranking as the second most downloaded app globally. Its rapid rise is fueled by high engagement rates, averaging 2.80% in the first half of 2025 and still climbing. Numbers like these explain why so many teams want to build TikTok-style feeds, not just to
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Exploring the Power and Potential of Stream’s Feeds API

In the world of real-time content experiences, user engagement, community, and retention metrics reign supreme. Fortunately, you can elevate your UX and improve KPIs that mean the most to your app with Stream's Activity Feed API and SDKs. Our reusable components are easy to integrate, require little to no maintenance, and, most importantly, can scale
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Alpha Release: Activity Feeds v3

Apps use Stream's Activity Feeds API with hundreds to millions of users. Today, we're excited to share the third iteration of our Feeds API, Feeds v3, which builds on our scalability and expands our Activity Feeds API to include popular community features like for-you feeds, client-side SDKs, comments, activity expiration, and more—all while being 30%
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What is an Activity Feed?

It should be no surprise that some of the world’s most popular apps contain an activity feed as their core functionality. This comprehensive guide is a crash course in activity feed types, activity feed benefits and best practices, and real-world activity feed examples and use cases. We’ll also explore how you can quickly integrate a
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Announcing the Beta Release of Activity Feeds for Flutter

Today, we are incredibly excited to announce the beta release of Stream’s Feeds SDK for Flutter 🥳. Stream’s Activity Feed API was built by developers, for developers to make their lives easier by not having to worry about scalability, maintenance, and reliability of a complex feed infrastructure. By leveraging Stream’s API or integrating our libraries
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Activity Feed Personalization 101: Top Feed Features to Improve User Engagement

Personalization comes in many flavors, and the data science team at Stream can help you build your own feeds personalization engine based on your specific needs. In conjunction with our analytics client we recommend tracking every event for every user, such as clicking on a link) we use both engagement and feed data to power
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