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Podcast: Enginears
Episode: Building chat messaging functions and API feeds for 1.5 Billion users | Enginears Podcast
Description: Stream are the #1 chat API for custom messaging apps and started off building activity feeds and slowly started introducing chat messaging API’s which feeds large-volumes of their traffic. Jeroen and Alexei took us on a journey to understand some of the challenges around latency, scalability and mobile performance.A great discussion which feeds into end-to-end challenges of the platform and why they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of C...