Implementing a News Feed / Activity Feed on Several Models - Recommendations?

Question

I\'m interested in learning how to implement a News Feed / Activity Feed on a web app for multiple models like Books, Authors, Comments, etc...

Any recommendations from

Answer 1

First and foremost, I’d like to be open and say that I am an employee of Stream, an API for building scalable news and activity feeds – much like you would see on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media applications.

From my extensive experience as a developer and consultant and continued research and self-education, Stream’s technology stack is extremely effective or competitive. You can get a news or activity feed up and running in a fraction of the time than it would take you to build out your own infrastructure (Cassandra clusters, queuing mechanisms, etc.).

That being said, I highly recommend checking out Stream. What it really comes down to is buy vs build. You can spend months building out a custom solution, or rely on a proven and scalable platform such as Stream that will offer you everything you need to get up and going, in a fraction of the time.

If you're skeptical, check out the 5 minute tutorial at https://getstream.io/get_started/.

Best of luck!