Stream Blog
Announcing Stream’s Video API Powered by Our Global Edge Network
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of our new Video API. You can use it to build video calling, audio rooms, and live streaming. The video API aims to make it easier for developers to build live in-app video and audio. All calls run on Stream's global edge network for optimal latency and
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Vonage Video API vs. Stream Video
It is essential to ensure that the video capabilities added to your product function as expected by your end users. Otherwise, you risk alienating your users instead of engaging them. Both Vonage and Stream provide Video SDKs. Let’s compare these two and see how well each can deliver your desired video functionality. But first, we’ll
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Stream Achieves DPF Certification
We are thrilled to announce that Stream has successfully achieved Data Privacy Framework certification, meeting its rigorous requirements and marking a significant milestone in our commitment to customer data privacy and security worldwide. A DPF is a fundamental aspect of modern data management, providing a structured approach to safeguarding personal information and ensuring compliance with
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Rigi Sees 50% YoY Growth After Integrating Stream Chat
Challenge: When Rigi's co-founders created the app, they needed a chat API to expedite their time to market. Rigi developers needed a chat solution that was easy to integrate and scalable enough to support large creator communities while delivering reliable, low-latency performance. Strategy: The Rigi team built a proof-of-concept (PoC) with the chat APIs from
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The 5 Best React UI Libraries
When building web applications, especially with React, using a UI library is not necessary – you can build everything from scratch if you prefer. However, UI libraries can be a game-changer, saving you time and effort by providing pre-built, well-designed components that you can easily integrate into your project. Using a UI library can help
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Using GStreamer with Go for Advanced Streaming Solutions
GStreamer is a powerful and versatile framework for video streaming and media processing. It's used widely in various applications due to its extensive capabilities for handling multimedia content. When combined with Go (Golang), a language known for its efficiency and ease of use, GStreamer can be employed to create robust streaming solutions. This article will
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The 6 Best LLM Tools To Run Models Locally
Running large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude usually involves sending data to servers managed by OpenAI and other AI model providers. While these services are secure, some businesses prefer to keep their data entirely offline for greater privacy. This article covers the top six tools developers can use to run and test LLMs
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Full-Stack Development with Ionic and Nitric
Why Nitric? Nitric is a multi-language framework designed to simplify and accelerate cloud application development. It abstracts away the complexities of cloud infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on writing code rather than managing underlying resources. Nitric provides similar benefits for backend development to those cross-platform solutions like Ionic and Flutter provide for frontend development.
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Is Go The Right Choice for Building a Backend?
Since its creation by Google in 2007, Go (Golang) has emerged as a strong contender in the space of backend development, thanks to its simplicity, performance, robust concurrency support and other benefits. But with so many languages attracting developers' attention, is Go the right choice for your next project? In this article, we'll explore Go's
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Migrate Your iOS Project From CocoaPods To Swift Package Manager
On August 13, 2024, Orta posted some big news on the CocoaPods blog. CocoaPods is entering maintenance mode. This is big. Thirteen years ago, CocoaPods was developed and it was huge. All of a sudden iOS and mac developers aroudn the world could integrate third party dependencies with relative ease. CocoaPods singlehandedly changed the way
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Designing Effective UIs For Enhancing Compose Previews
One of the biggest advantages of using Jetpack Compose is the Previews feature provided by Android Studio. This functionality allows developers to build and display parts of their layout incrementally rather than building the entire project. Compose Previews significantly reduce the time required to verify component displays directly within Android Studio by enabling developers to
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Using Prompt Engineering to Refine a Large Language Model for Content Moderation
In our previous blog post, we created an agent using OpenAI GPT that can understand whether or not messages contain spam. We connected it to the Stream Chat API so that incoming messages in chat can be automatically flagged and reviewed by moderators using Stream Moderation Dashboard. To enhance the accuracy of our agent and
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