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Scaling Activity Feeds to 100M Users: Stream's Latest Benchmarks

calendar_today February 2, 2026 person noreply@getstream.io (Emily N.) domain getstream

Stream has reached a major milestone in activity feed infrastructure, successfully benchmarking over 37 million operations with a 10% write and 90% read workload distribution across a dataset of 100M users, 500M activities, and 200M follow relationships. Each scenario was tested at 500, 1,000, and 1,500 requests per second to measure performance under increasing load.

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