September 2014 Summaries

Feedly's 1.0.0 release has been renamed to Stream Framework due to a naming conflict with the company that owns feedly.com, and efforts are being made to ensure a smooth transition. The GitHub repository has been updated to reflect this change, and the package is now available on PYPI, allowing users to install it using pip. The new stream_framework package remains backward compatible, enabling users to continue using their existing imports until March 19, 2015, when backward compatibility will be dropped. Users are encouraged to update their requirements files immediately by replacing "feedly" with "stream_framework" as the old package will be removed from PYPI on January 22, 2015. The development team has outlined a roadmap featuring several new features, including improved documentation, Python 3 support, upgraded CQLEngine and Python driver, a scalable database backend, and relevancy-based feeds, and they welcome feedback from users.

GetStream has recently undergone a comprehensive upgrade, enhancing various aspects of its product, including new API endpoints, improved official clients, updated documentation, and a redesigned dashboard for better usability. The improvements include a new JavaScript client that can be used both client-side and server-side, and the documentation has been rewritten to provide examples ready for use in Ruby, Node, Python, and PHP. Notable new features include notification feeds that facilitate app integration with real-time updates and unique reference management through the foreign_id field, allowing for easier activity deletion and uniqueness control. Additionally, GetStream now supports schema-less custom fields, enhanced control over fan-outs with the "to" field, and batch activity insertion, which simplifies importing large amounts of data. These updates aim to streamline the development of scalable social applications, offering users greater flexibility and efficiency.