Product Updates Important Announcement: the EU2 region will replace EU1 in Auto-all The EU2 region has been introduced on the 1st of September 2021. It's now time to phase out the EU1 region. 1st step The 1st step is to replace the EU1
Product Updates Simple Region Switching Guide: EU1 to EU2 This is a blog post version of a Google docs we shared with our clients when we introduced the EU2 region. In September of 2021 we rolled out a new files processing region
Product Updates A New Dropbox Integration We've just rolled out a new way to push recordings and their associated files to Dropbox. This new integration is simpler - it does not require you to create your own
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
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:
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
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
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
Product Updates 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:
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
Product Updates A 5x Increase In Our Platform Limits We've substantially increased some of the limits on the Pipe Platform. 5x Daily Recording Limits The daily recording limits have been introduced during the early months of the 2020 Pandemic for
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
Monthly Update 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
Product Updates New EU region (EU2) 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
Monthly Update July Update (2021) Some of the stuff we've worked on during July: A new REST API In autumn of 2020, we've started work on a new REST API to replace the existing
Monthly Update May & June Update (2021) Some of the stuff we've worked on during May and June: Testing Ingestion Servers & Provisioning A lot of our time has been spent testing our ingestion servers with more and
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
Monthly Update April Update (2021) Close to 0 duplicates Our 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
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 servers Nginx will allow us to scale the ingestion capacity in
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
