Hans is a content writer at Unified Streaming. He thought Dutch was difficult, then he heard software engineers speak English.
Recently I sat at a café with my colleague Mark Ogle, senior streaming solutions engineer at Unified Streaming (and someone far smarter than I). Unified Vir…
Do you know the phrase “cut to the chase”? It comes from early Hollywood. Movie execs said it, meaning, Let’s skip extra dialogue and go straight to the action.
Our company uses Slack. I’m an active member of about 5 channels, where I post comments, replies, and emojis. My comments and replies are either jokes or att…
The term “Hyrum’s Law” was brought up in a tech standup meeting the other day. I think a developer said some customer had jerry-rigged our source code for so…
Issues pop up outta nowhere. They try to corner you. They try to kill your streaming workflow. Never fear, streaming engineer.
Size. In tech, we deal with it daily. We’re growing our profits. The meeting’s going longer than expected. The client wants a short turnaround. Video streaming devs can relate. In particular, the size of language codes has been flummoxing some of you recently.
Let’s say you’re a content creator, a content owner, a broadcaster, or an OTT streaming service. You’ve got some programming that’s not pulling its weight. …
Now that you’ve got content, you want to stream it.But what else? Put in ads? Charge more for better quality? Create deeply personalized experiences? How abo…
We live in an extraordinary age. Even our grandparents are on TikTok! Social media platforms make it all so easy. But if you want to set up your own stream…
Where I come from, we have a phrase that I didn’t think was odd or absolutely horrific until I began writing this blog. “There are many ways to skin a cat.”…
“We are aligned.” So many people, so many things in this world need to align with others to work well. These things include audio tracks. With your video tracks. Oh, and your text tracks, too.
“Everyone’s talking about FAST channels.”That’s not quite true. Everyone who knows what FAST channels are, and either profits from them already, or plans to…
This month’s question, which we’ve been getting a lot, is: How do I run a containerized setup of your software on my new Apple Silicon-based Mac? Well, firs…