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S2, the Stream Store @s2.dev · 12d

Distracted boyfriend spurning durable objects to check out durable streams

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote about it: s2.dev/blog/durable...
Try it here: s2.dev/demos/y-s2?r...

Behind y-s2: serverless multiplayer rooms

Powering reliable real-time collaboration with S2

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to share y-s2, an open-source serverless backend for real-time collaborative applications using Yjs and @s2.dev!

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shikhar @schmizz.net · Sep 1

After a bout of hallucination, I had GPT5 generate some backronyms for itself:
- Generally Pretends Truthfully
- Gullible People’s Trick
- Greatly Pretends Things
- Generated, Probably Twisted
- Guessing, Passing, Tricking
- Good at Pretending Truths
- Generally Produces Tall-tales

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sbalogh.bsky.social @sbalogh.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote a bit about how we verify linearizability of @s2.dev using Porcupine! s2.dev/blog/lineari...

Linearizability testing S2 with deterministic simulation

How we validate strong consistency

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shikhar @schmizz.net · Aug 5

s2.dev got a refresh ✨

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our Star Wars quickstart got good feedback, and now you can view the stream from the dashboard too 🫣

This comes in real handy for live debugging and observability — especially in systems built around agentic workflows, microservices, or event sourcing using @s2.dev

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · Jul 28

Music credits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7q...

IRC in 23 lines of bash with S2 by Stephen Balogh: gist.github.com/infiniteregr...

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · Jul 28

@s2.dev can now automatically delete streams where all records have fallen out of retention or it was never written to, based on a configurable time threshold.

The option is called "delete-on-empty" and you can set it up on the default stream configuration for your basin from the dashboard or CLI!

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shikhar @schmizz.net · Jul 1

Agents need granular streams. And yes, @s2.dev fits the bill nicely!

s2.dev/blog/agent-s...

screenshot of blog post titled `Stream per agent session`

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sbalogh.bsky.social @sbalogh.bsky.social · Jun 26

Super cool XTDB plugin from @chuck.cassel.dev, which implements the write-ahead log using @s2.dev streams: github.com/chucklehead-...

GitHub - chucklehead-dev/s2-log

Contribute to chucklehead-dev/s2-log development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · Jun 24

Change data capture from Postgres is simple with the right tools. We collaborated with sequinstream.com on an integration so you can use @s2.dev to ship real-time features faster!

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sbalogh.bsky.social @sbalogh.bsky.social · Jun 10

Had a lot of fun with this 😄 – a multiplayer, "instant re-playable" pseudoterminal that uses @s2.dev streams as a transport instead of SSH: s2.dev/blog/s2-term

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shikhar @schmizz.net · Jun 3

You can now safely share @s2.dev streams directly with end clients like browsers, apps, or agents! No proxying required. Check it out, s2.dev/blog/access-...

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shikhar @schmizz.net · May 30

Kind words from Chris about S2! I felt strongly that we needed to not hitch our wagon to Kafka. It is not even a priority for us, for now. This may seem like a strange analogy... but if Kafka is OLAP, we want to be OLTP. See this demo to understand what I mean: s2.dev/docs/integra...

Chris @chris.blue · May 30

New post! I wrote about malaise in the streaming space. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm thinking part of it has to do with Kafka.

Kafka: The End of the Beginning

A decade of focus on adoption has payed off. Now it's time to innovate.

materializedview.io

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · May 28

Package: www.npmjs.com/package/@s2-...
Docs: s2.dev/docs/integra...

Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · May 28

We were inspired by Vercel's take on resumable streams in the Chat SDK, and thought — what if we took it a step further with S2?

With the @s2-dev/resumable-stream npm package, you can use S2 as the backend for stream resumption in AI chat applications.

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Chris @chris.blue · May 16

S2 is starting to do some really interesting stuff…

shikhar @schmizz.net · May 16

What if you could share an S2 stream directly with an end client, no additional proxy middleware to implement? S2 now supports granular scopes on access tokens! I'll share more on it soon.

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shikhar @schmizz.net · May 14

S2 now supports timestamps! 🕰️

How we made streams understand time: s2.dev/blog/timesta...

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shikhar @schmizz.net · May 2

Adding a familiar tail command to the @s2.dev CLI felt natural!

Some folks have compared Stream Store to a "serverless named pipe." It's an intuitive analogy, and here are some ways S2 is so much more:

- Record-oriented
- Durable on object storage
- Built-in concurrency control

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Vaibhav Rabber @vrong.me · Apr 3

Create streams on the fly with ease. Just turn on this setting for your basin.

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shikhar @schmizz.net · Apr 2

I blogged about our DST journey with @s2.dev s2.dev/blog/dst

DST for async Rust

Taming distributed systems with deterministic simulation testing.

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Mehul Arora @infiniteregrets.bsky.social · Apr 2

The S2 CLI makes it super easy to manage basins and streams - but now you can also do a lot from within the dashboard!

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · Mar 25

just added an Accessibility page talking about what Wizard Zines has been doing to make things more accessible for screen reader users wizardzines.com/accessibility/

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Luke Hedger @lukehedger.dev · Mar 21

Just watched @sbalogh.bsky.social HYTRADBOI talk and I love the idea behind @s2.dev: using a stream as your database ✨ The simplicity of the API/concepts is going to make it accessible to teams who'd otherwise have to reach for ~kafka to get a similar architecture

www.hytradboi.com/2025/f2cc03c...

Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture

www.hytradboi.com

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