Blog - Gumlet
Thoughts, stories and ideas about video transcoding and delivery.
Content Management Update
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Videos are hard to process, stream and manage. The last part is actually harder than it seems. You start with few videos and then end up with few hundreds and sometimes even thousands. How do you manage them effectively? We asked this question and designed something that is going to be massively helpful to our users. Let's jump into details. Video CMS Our new CMS gives everyone many ways to organise videos and while making it super easy to work with large content library. New Home 🏠 Firs
2022: Year in Review
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2022 has been a momentous year for us at Gumlet. A year of learning, growth and valuable lessons. This year changed the narrative of our start-up journey for the better and taught us a lot along the way. We decided to take some time and mark the milestones before we move ahead to another adventurous year. Here we go! Team Updates We started the year with 15 of us working across India and were joined by like-minded, driven teammates along the way. We are now 26 strong. Most of us still work re
Six Gumleteers and 111 Epic Videos
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Gumlet built a video guestbook app for the attendees at React India Conference. A small idea turned out to be a big attraction at the event.
Monsoon'22 Update
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Monsoon is upon us, and new features and updates are pouring in for the Gumlet community. We are thrilled to announce some of our most significant feature releases in a long time. Let's dive in. Instant Video Transcoding Gumlet's video flow looked like this: Start processing ➡ Transcode ➡ Webhook Notification ➡ Start streaming. This was a problem for our social media customers, who needed their videos available instantly. Waiting for transcoding and listening for the webhook was painful and s
Summer '22 Update ☀️
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After successfully launching our video platform in January, we have been working to make it more feature-rich and intuitive for all of you in the last few months. Let's jump right in! DRM 🔐 This was one of the most requested features. DRM support is now available across all devices on the planet. We support both Widevine and Fairplay DRM to protect your content. These are the same systems used by Netflix and Amazon Prime to protect their content. The entire complexity of DRM is abstracted a
SaaS products we use to build our SaaS
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It takes a village (and a lot of SaaS tools) to build a SaaS. Here is a list of all tools we use at Gumlet.
HTTP/3 - Gumlet is 10% faster!
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Last month, we changed our congestion control algorithm to BBR and ralised 21% performance improvement in p99 response times. Using same method to measure performance, we enabled HTTP/3 for all of our customers at start of April 2022. We were obviously expecting some performance gains but were pleasantly surprised to see almost 10% performance improvement on top of what we delivered last month using BBR. For starters, HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to
BBR vs CUBIC: BBR improves performance by 21%
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We at Gumlet handle more than a billion video requests per day. Serving these requests with the best performance is one of our top KPIs. Reducing latency in video serving can bring improvements in video startup times, seek time, and re-buffering times. All this put together can result in smooth playback of videos and elevate the customer experience. We use Fastly as our primary CDN provider. Fastly uses the CUBIC congestion control algorithm by default. They, however, allow changing congestion
New Year, New Gumlet
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We have helped 6000+ companies optimize their images and improve user experience. We are now expanding our product suite to videos!