Video Experiences for Passionate Fans at Scale.

Egor Neliuba

Mar 7, 2019

Automating the Android library release process with Kotlin Scripts

Release any Android library with this one simple trick DevOps won’t tell you about.

FOMS 2018 — Standards, Unconference Style

Nicolai Trandafil

Dec 15, 2017

Automating Github & Jira Workflows with “Merge Assistant”

Boilerplate beginning

In computer programming, boilerplate code or boilerplate refers to sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration. It is often used when…

Ilya Ghirici

Nov 22, 2017

Building VCode links with OpenCV and Branch.io

Michael Dale

Oct 12, 2017

FOMS and Demuxed 2017 Report Back

The FOMS workshop and demuxed conference took place here in San Francisco last week. Ellation was…

Soumya Lakshmi

Sep 29, 2017

Ellation’s First Hackday

Michael Dale

Mar 31, 2017

Stabilizing & Improving Crunchyroll Service

As a Crunchyroll user you may have noticed some degradation of service on weekends as our popular simulcasts are released. We have been tracking this issue closely and employing strategies on the short, medium and long term to ensure Crunchyroll long…

Just-in-time VOD packaging in an AWS environment with role-based credentials

TL;DR: The nginx+kaltura JIT VOD packager can’t perform role-based request signing for S3 to access mp4 assets. You can set up s3-helper by configuring the S3 region and bucket, and it takes care of…

Improving Video Quality for Crunchyroll and VRV

At Ellation we have been hard at work rolling out updated encoding settings to drive increased video quality for Crunchyroll. This work includes improvements to quality for both our HD viewers and those on limited bandwidth, to get the best…

Open sourcing some useful Go utilities

Today we’re open-sourcing a couple small utilities we use internally:

`multilog` is a replacement for the built-in Go log package, supports a number of different logging levels, support for simultaneous logging to multiple files, a…