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I really like https://getstream.io/ docs. For me, SDK support is important, as are examples and templates that I can play with & build off of. I also like the API usage dashboard that Stream supplies when you login. Which veers into the terriory of dev portal, but worth mentioning. Also, in terms of tools for actually building documentation, I recommend looking at https://docusaurus.io/ for clean, customisable documentation.

Stream https://getstream.io | Multiple Positions | Amsterdam, NL and Boulder, USA | Onsite, Remote | Full Time Stream provides APIs for building activity feeds and chat. Our team is passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them. As a developer at Stream, you will build software that’s used by tens of thousands of developers and more than half a billion end-users. Stream’s APIs are powered by Go, RocksDB, and Raft - with response times typically measured in single-digit milliseconds. We are hiring for the following positions: - Go Developer - Android Developer - Security Engineer - Java SDK Developer - .NET SDK Developer - DBA / DevOps Engineer PostgreSQL - SRE - Node/Python integration Developer If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply here: https://getstream.io/team/

since this is built on top of Getstream.io https://getstream.io/ I guess it follows their pricing structure - https://getstream.io/pricing/ free for 3 million updates... what defines a feed update: The number of feed updates depends on how many activities you publish via the API and the number of users who follow those feeds. If you add an activity to a feed that is followed by 50 other feeds, this will trigger 51 feed updates. which sounds to me like if you use them to do stuff you have to control not just your feeds through their api but also your users - otherwise how will they know really how many users following the feeds?

Stream | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ONSITE | https://getstream.io/careers | Software Engineer Stream (https://getstream.io, Techstars NYC'15) is building a new kind of data store. A data store for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. Our users access Stream via a blazing fast, highly available and simple to use API service. Stream runs on an infrastructure optimized for performance and availability. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. You will work on great problems such as realtime, HA, high concurrency etc.. Reach out to me directly at [email protected] if you're interested

Stream (https://getstream.io) | Multiple Positions | Amsterdam (NL), Skopje (Macedonia) | Remote possible | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship We are consistently hiring backend engineers ranging from Senior level to Staff / Lead / Director / Principal Go engineers. If you have experience with a different tech stack, we offer a 10-week onboarding program to train you in Go, scaling and other key topics: https://tinyurl.com/2u5x9f9w We’re also hiring for: * Director of Information Security * Design Engineer * Staff Android SDK Engineer * Developer Relations Engineer * DevOps Engineer * WebRTC SFU Engineer At Stream, we use Go for our video SFU, chat API, Moderation and Feeds, serving high traffic from major apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, and Midjourney. Our tech stack: Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis. Why Join Stream? * High scale/ difficult engineering, we have customers using our products with millions of users * Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue * All managers are hands-on and capable engineers * Edge network of servers around the world * Great opportunity to learn and grow Remote: our roles are primarily NL-based (hybrid), but exemptions for remote work within the EU may apply to specific cases Visa Sponsorship: Available for the Netherlands Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r

It depends. For AI to work for large projects (did a post on this forever ago in AI terms. https://getstream.io/blog/cursor-ai-large-projects/) But you need: a staff level engineer to guide it, great standardization and testing best practices. And yes in that situation you can go 10-50x faster. Many teams/products are not in that environment though.

FYI, Your website (https://getstream.io/) is broken :-) Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Serving more than a billion end users, Stream's scalable APIs and open-source SDKs come with all the building blocks to ship a custom white-label experience that rivals today's leading social platforms. Stream’s 9ms average API response time infrastructure is built with Go, RocksDB, and Raft. No other Chat API can match our scalability. We support over 5 million concurrent connections in a single channel without any issues. At the moment we are actively hiring for the following positions: - Android Team Lead (Jetpack Compose) - Android SDK Developer (Jetpack Compose) - Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django) - React Native Engineer If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now! https://getstream.io/team/

is it strange to anyone else how similar the logos for https://streamlit.io/ and https://getstream.io/ are?

Stream is one of the fastest-growing startups in Europe. Our company provides APIs for building activity feeds and chat. Our team is passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them. As a developer at Stream, you will build software that’s used by tens of thousands of developers and more than half a billion end-users. At the moment we are actively hiring for the following positions: Go Developer (Netherlands or USA) Site Reliability Engineer (USA) Technical Product Manager (USA) DevOps Engineer (USA) If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now! https://getstream.io/team/

Mozilla could be interested in the greatest new chat product from the getstream.io folks. It looks like not an outlier, being used by PH, unsplash, and other great websites. Maybe worth checking out! https://getstream.io/chat/

Congrats on the launch! Any relation to Stream [0]? Your logo is very similar. 0: https://getstream.io/

N.B. this isn't fully open source because it relies on the Stream API: https://getstream.io/ They have a free quota of 3 million feed updates (not sure if total, I'm guessing per month?). Important to keep in mind because the app may be open source, but they can pull the plug on it by shutting down the web service. And so you can't self host it independently. It might be nice, not saying otherwise, but for example something like Newsblur.com is open source and hosted, so you can pay a yearly fee for the service, while having the peace of mind that you can fork it and self host it yourself should the product die, which is what many of us want after Google pulled the plug on Reader ;-)

You get me thinking about side projects... http://getstream.io provides Twitter-like feeds as a service. For personal use wonder if it's possible to build a better newsfeed that Facebooks on top of the same content?

Stream | Multiple Positions | Amsterdam, NL and Boulder, US | Remote possible | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship Stream powers APIs for Chat Messaging, Activity Feeds, Auto Moderation, Video & Audio that are used by over a billion end-users, and are powered by Go, RocksDB, and Raft - with response times typically measured in single-digit milliseconds. We reached a new industry benchmark for scaling real-time chat as-a-service, with 5 million concurrent connections supported in a single chat channel. We’re currently one of the fastest growing startups in Europe and Colorado on our Series B round of $38 mln: https://tcrn.ch/3peCYXl We’re hiring for the following positions: * React Native SDK Engineer (Netherlands/North Macedonia) * Senior Backend Engineer (Go) (Netherlands/EU Remote) * Android SDK Engineer (Compose) (Netherlands/EU Remote) * Flutter SDK Developer (Netherlands/EU Remote) * Lead Flutter SDK Developer (Netherlands/EU Remote) * Frontend Engineer (Netherlands/EU Remote) As a part of Stream, you'll have a chance to make a huge impact on the product within a team of the strongest engineers all over the world (over 35 countries aboard). If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now! https://getstream.io/team/#jobs

Stream (https://getstream.io) | PHP Developer | Amsterdam | ONSITE | Full time Stream is hiring a talented PHP developer to work on open source PHP projects: API clients, framework integrations, and example applications. In this role you'll also have the opportunity to assist and support the open developer community around these projects. Skills and requirements: * A thorough understanding of the PHP language as well as the testing and tooling ecosystem (e.g. phpunit, Composer/Packagist) * Experience applying Object Oriented Programming principles in PHP applications * A track record of bringing projects built with PHP frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, Silex, and CodeIgniter into production * Strong understanding of the HTTP, REST web service principles and web security * Dedication to working in a collaborative team setting with Github, quality testing and documentation About the product: Stream is an API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. The technology relies heavily on Cassandra and machine learning. Stream powers the feeds for over 50 million end users and handles billion feed updates every day. Our customers include small startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Building a scalable, highly available, secure and performant feed infrastructure is a hard problem. About our company: Stream was founded in The Netherlands and participated in Techstars in NY. We now have offices in both Amsterdam and Boulder, Colorado. Find out more about the company…

Built a demo around integrating Gemini Live with Stream's Video API for agent use-cases. In this example, I'm having the LLM provide feedback to players as they try to improve their mini-golf swing. On the backend, it uses the Python AI SDK to capture the WebRTC frames from the player, convert them, and then feed them to the Gemini Live API. Once we have a response from Gemini, the audio output is encoded and sent directly to the call, where the user can hear and respond. Is anyone else building apps around AI and real-time voice/video? Would be curious to share notes. If anyone is interested in trying for themselves: Python SDK docs: https://getstream.io/video/docs/python-ai/basics/quickstart/ Github: https://github.com/GetStream/stream-py/tree/webrtc

Yes, you're most likely doing it wrong. I would like to add that "vibe coding" is a dreadful term thought up by someone who is arguably not very good at software engineering, as talented as he may be in other respects. The term has become a misleading and frankly pejorative term. A better, more neutral one is AI assisted software engineering. This is an article that describes a pretty good approach for that: https://getstream.io/blog/cursor-ai-large-projects/ But do skip (or at least significantly postpone) enabling the 'yolo mode' (sigh).

nice also you can use project-specific structure and markdown files to ensure the AI organizes content correctly for your use case. we are using it on 800k lines of golang and it works well. https://getstream.io/blog/cursor-ai-large-projects/

Agreed, it's rare for any service to outright say "we shadow ban" as done here [1] for example. And, most services still use a form of shadow moderation [2]. So it's perfectly fine to discuss here. Attempts to shut down conversation are just that. [1] https://getstream.io/blog/feature-announcement-shadow-ban/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916414

Nice. What's the compensation range for toys role in Remote (EMEA) or AMS? https://getstream.io/careers/job/4617451003/

Winds by stream(https://getstream.io/winds/) is now shut down but I did enjoy using it to manage all my RSS feeds. Good thing it's open source been considering self hosting.

Please don't write programs in go. Sure it looks awesome on the surface but it's a nightmare when you get a null pointer panic in a 3rd party library. Instead use Rust. See here for more info: https://getstream.io/blog/fixing-the-billion-dollar-mistake-in-go-by-b…

Something is odd about the timing. This article is dated "Wednesday, March 3 2021" but appears to be identical to https://getstream.io/blog/switched-python-go/ dated Oct 17, 2017 and updated either May 14th 2019 or Sep 15, 2020. Both say "Early this year, we switched Stream’s primary programming language from Python to Go", and there was HN discussion about it on Oct 17, 2017 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15495562 (397 comments).

"it seems like they are not any more privacy averse than any other messaging service, given that they don't claim to offer any more privacy than any other service." Pro tip, using sweeping words like "any" will almost always make you wrong. Nearly every popular messaging service these days offers end-to-end encryption. I have no idea what you're talking about when you say they "are not any more privacy averse than any other messaging service" When you're worse off, privacy-wise than a Facebook owned messenger, you're not doing too hot. I found a good write up of popular and e2e messengers for you to check out. https://getstream.io/blog/most-secure-messaging-apps/

There are certainly people that feel like it was a mistake. https://getstream.io/blog/fixing-the-billion-dollar-mistake-in-go-by-b…

You should have a look at Winds (https://getstream.io/winds). It keeps everything in one place and visibility seems to be a top priority. Pretty cool app and it's available for web and desktop.

We're currently working on an Open Source and good looking RSS + podcast app that has personalization built in. If that sounds interesting to you be sure sign up here to be notified when the beta is released: https://getstream.io/winds/

Your post reminded me of this situation with .IO. that was on HN recently... https://getstream.io/blog/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-production-tr… And then there was the security researcher who took control of 4 of the 7 authoritative name servers... http://www.securityweek.com/researcher-takes-over-io-domains-registeri… Not sure what to do in this situation though.

Stream chat https://getstream.io/pricing/