Stream Blog

TL;DR The Problem For hourly workers, communication is rarely simple. Messages are often scattered across third-party applications like WhatsApp groups, Facebook Messenger threads, texts, or generic workplace tools that were never designed for shift-based teams. The Solution Deputy set out to solve that problem by bringing real-time messaging directly into its workforce management platform. The

Let’s build a restaurant reservation system to speak with a voice agent via a real-time phone call. The service will have three main features: Agent Outbound Call: The agent can act as both a customer helper and a restaurant assistant. For example, it can be configured as an AI restaurant employee that calls customers back

Stream and CometChat are two of the most-evaluated platforms for teams building real-time communication into their products. Both offer APIs, SDKs, and UI components for messaging, audio, and video. But they are built around different philosophies:  Stream is engineered for deep customization and extreme scale, CometChat is designed to get you to production fast with

This step-by-step guide will help you build an AI front-desk receptionist that interacts with patients through conversations, assesses their conditions, and advises whether to visit a doctor or seek online medical advice. When an agent can see the patient’s condition in real time, it can make a smarter recommendation, saving patients an unnecessary trip to

A frozen message composer. A feed that won’t load. A draft that vanishes. None of these register as crashes, but all of them lose users. Add real-time features, like chat, activity feeds, or live streaming, and your crash rate can look pristine in Crashlytics while your app silently drops messages and bleeds memory. This guide

Building a social media app means a single user action must propagate to potentially millions of other users in real time, while staying fast, safe, and cheap. Every feature touches every other feature. And the hard problems shift as you scale. At 100K users, it’s the database. At 1M users, it’s the fan-out strategies. At

Livestream shopping is changing how people discover and buy products online by combining real-time video with instant purchasing. Platforms like TikTok have popularised this model, enabling creators and brands to showcase products live while viewers shop without leaving the stream. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a TikTok-style livestream shopping application using Next.js.

In most of the world, if you’re YOLO’ing, you’re jumping out of a plane, asking out your future spouse, or eating gas station sushi. In vision AI, You’re Only Looking Once. Ultralytics’ YOLO is a real-time object detection framework with a simple premise: instead of scanning an image multiple times to find and classify objects,