S2's REST API now supports long polling, besides SSE! Long polling is a simple way for client-driven consumption with stateless HTTP requests. You just need to specify the ?wait=<seconds> query parameter. If no records are available, the response will only return after the duration elapses.

I shared more context on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/databasede...

We open sourced a read-through cache for S3, called Cachey github.com/s2-streamsto...

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

OpenTelemetry 🤝 @s2.dev Are you building infrastructure for sandbox environments (e.g., agent sandbox, CI/CD sandbox) and want to stream execution logs to users in real time? If so, check out s2.dev/docs/integra... and let us know what you think.

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

You are a stream integrator!

Added some visibility into usage metrics to the @s2.dev dashboard!

There needs to be a non-violent alternative to "cattle, not pets". Claude suggests: (a) crops, not gardens (b) numbered, not named (c) stamps, not paintings (d) legos, not sculptures I think I'll be rolling with (b) 😅

s2.dev got a refresh ✨

when database founders meet, it's called an fsync

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

CRC32C -> CRC64NVME ✅

S2 playground was briefly on HN and someone got a shared session going. yy2wi21o, I agree. APPEND. ALL. THE. THINGS. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...

Can you build a realtime BBS on s2? Yes, in fact... s2.dev/playground

My AI tell: This isn't just X. This is Y.

Agents need granular streams. And yes, @s2.dev fits the bill nicely! s2.dev/blog/agent-s...

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

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!

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

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-...

I'm so happy to see teams going clean slate in this space. Being at the mercy of a poorly designed protocol and spaghetti like librdkafka just isn't worth it.

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...

@s2.dev now has an MCP server! The entire API is available for tool-use by AI assistants like Claude -- see it in action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLFk...

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.

It’s priced per DCU. If you don’t know what that is, rest easy; neither does AWS.

Introducing LiveStore (beta) LiveStore is a next-generation state management framework based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine. livestore.dev

anybody here got thoughts on Redis Streams (redis.io/docs/latest/...)? Love / hate / why you reached for it / why you didn't

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.

S2 now supports timestamps! 🕰️ How we made streams understand time: s2.dev/blog/timesta...

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

Event-driven design is highly underutilized. It's the right architectural approach for many systems and applications but often it's too inconvenient to do. I'm trying to fix that with @livestoredev by making the right thing easy.

S3 express pricing update takeaways - 512 KiB writes are actually 8% more expensive, 1 MiB writes are 33% cheaper. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/up...

Create streams on the fly with ease. Just turn on this setting for your basin. @s2.dev

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

What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? Meet Graft: lazy, partial, strongly consistent edge replication. #OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...

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...

With my final semester coming up, its time to put up an open to work post and put my hat in the market. Open to work in distributed systems/databases and backend positions. I have experience writing systems that implement different distributed consensus protocols. Résume: resume.akshatsharma.xyz

Bytewax connector for @s2.dev is out now! bytewax.io/blog/s2-conn...

I gave a #HYTRADBOI talk which was a plea to not just choose Raft by default for replicating data: transactional.blog/t...

A walkthrough of the CLI that will give you a good sense of S2 overall: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-31...

Talk 24: "Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture" by Stephen Balogh (@sbalogh.bsky.social)

We're also releasing an alpha version of a Flink connector for S2 streams: github.com/s2-streamsto... See the demos for an example real-time feature pipeline for turning beacons (stored on S2) into complex events, and ultimately a dynamic table of ML features stored upsert-style on an S2 stream.

Is Kafka a log? No Is a Kafka topic a log? No, the topic-partition is the log. A Kinesis stream is not a log either. The stream-shard is. S2 does not bury the core abstraction everyone can get behind. An S2 stream is a log.

bringing back the IRC experience with 23 lines of bash

On a more personal level, we are honoured that we got to work with @schmizz.net and the rest of the @s2.dev team ahead of their launch and managed to play a small role in their really awesome product!

This manages to cover a lot of ground! From writing to an S2 stream using Python, to streaming in real-time with Typescript over our new REST API.