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
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
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
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
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
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
Technology The Flash Recording Client Will Be Removed Starting with February 1st 2021 12th of January Update: According to Adobe's recently updated Flash EOL page to help secure users’ systems, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.
Formsite How to add multiple Pipe video recorders to Formsite forms. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the new 2.0 Pipe embed code which introduces the possibility to add multiple recorders to your Formsite forms.
Product Updates Auto Delete Recordings with the New Lifecycle Feature Today we're rolling out a new way to delete recordings. Similar to the AWS S3 lifecycle, the Pipe lifecycle allows you to automatically delete recordings (files from our storage and their
