Monthly Update June & July 2022 Update Most of our work hours during June have gone into iterating on the export feature and preparing it for production. By the end of June we were ready to use it with a
Product Updates New Feature: Export Recording Data A new feature has been rolled out today: the ability to export the recording data on your Pipe account as .csv. The feature is available to all accounts (trial, PRO, Standard, etc.) in
Product Updates Price Increase for the PRO Plan and Old Grandfathered Subscriptions Our last subscription price increase was on the 1st of October 2017. Since then, we've put in almost 5 years of work into the Pipe platform. We've added CDN for the recording client.
Technology Using Gearman in 2022 We're using Gearman to process tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of recordings per day. This is the summary of work & research done by all 3 engineers at Pipe: Octavian, Remus
Monthly Update May 2022 Update At the beginning of May, we had to process a significant volume of small recordings on our us1 region in a small amount of time. This event took over the entire engineering month.
Monthly Update April 2022 Update Fairly quiet month from an engineering standpoint. We're migrating to StatusCake from Pingdom. We're taking a deeper look at our processing infrastructure code. We've started working on a new export to .csv feature.
Monthly Update February & March 2022 Update February 1 was the date we launched the new oAuth flow for our Sign In With Google feature. I've covered the update in more detail in A Proper Sign In With Google. Since
Product Updates A Proper Sign In With Google Implementation I believe we're at the 3rd iteration of our Sign In With Google mechanism. I think this time, we finally got it right. It started as a privacy related task. We wanted to
Updates to Pipe’s Terms of Service We’re updating our Terms of Service. The updates should make it easier to understand what to expect when you use the service. There are no significant changes. Here's what changed: Clarified terms
Monthly Update January 2022 Update January ended with the announcement that we've increased the max daily number of recordings limit, the max file size for uploads and the default max recording time by 5x. But a lot more
Product Updates A 5x Increase In Our Platform Limits We've substantially increased some of the limits on the Pipe Platform. 5x Daily Recording LimitsThe daily recording limits have been introduced during the early months of the 2020 Pandemic for new accounts. Since
Product Updates Inline HTML5 Desktop Recorder on Safari on iOS Pipe’s HTML5 desktop recorder can now be used inline on Safari on iOS/iPadOS 14.3+. The move is part of our effort to provide desktop-like inline recorders on mobile devices. Almost
Product Updates Beta Support for Safari on macOS Safari took us on a wild ride this past year. After Flash support was removed in Safari 14, we were left with no way record video in Safari. The MediaStream Recording API (needed
Tutorials Integrating Pipe Webhooks with AWS Lambda Webhooks are a powerful way of integrating between different software services. Thanks to the recent Pipe webhook update, which allows you to send webhooks with content-type application/json, you can integrate them with
September Update Safari support Supporting Safari 14.0.2 on macOS and an inline desktop recorder for Safari on iOS 14.3+ (just like the one we have for Chrome on Android) were some of
New EU region and EU Silo Today, we're introducing a new recordings processing region in Europe: eu2. We're introducing this region to comply with CJEU's decision from 2020, which invalidated the Privacy Shield mechanism for transferring personal data between
Monthly Update July Update (2021) Some of the stuff we've worked on during July: A new REST APIIn autumn of 2020, we've started work on a new REST API to replace the existing one, but after about a
Monthly Update May & June Update (2021) Some of the stuff we've worked on during May and June: Testing Ingestion Servers & ProvisioningA lot of our time has been spent testing our ingestion servers with more and more simultaneous users.
Product Updates Changes to Sub-processors In light of the Schrems II decision from last year, which invalidated Privacy Shield, we're adding Hetzner (Germany) and Scaleway S.A.S. (France) as sub-processors. We plan to use Hetzner to host
Monthly Update April Update (2021) Close to 0 duplicatesOur efforts leading up to the 2 big changes made in March had the desired effect. During the last 4 weeks (March 5th - April 2nd), we've only had 1
Monthly Update March Update (2021) We've worked on 2 big changes this last month: We've placed Nginx in front of our Node ingestion serversNginx will allow us to scale the ingestion capacity in every region across several servers.
Monthly Update February Update (2021) Some of the stuff we've worked on during February: Deletion mechanisms on our ingestion servers (part 2)We've continued the work on the deletion mechanisms. I've talked more about this work and the
Technology Typical Video Bitrates We were recently asked about video bitrates and file sizes: ...are there typical file sizes for low, medium and high quality of, say, 1 minute of video responses?My immediate answer was that
Monthly Update January Update (2021) We're starting a new series of (monthly) blog posts to cover what goes on in the company. Usually, we announce significant changes and features by posting on the blog and sending out an
Alchemer How to create qualitative surveys with video responses using Alchemer and Pipe Video Recorder In 2017 we published our first tutorial on how to create qualitative surveys with video responses using the 1.0 version of the Pipe Video Recorder embed code and SurveyGizmo. Since then many
