60 points from 10,000: how stream charts stay readable
Analytics timeseries downsample with LTTB to 60 points so charts stay honest about spikes — average buckets would hide them.
Engineering
RTMP, RTMPS, SRT, WHIP: an honest guide to ingest protocols
What RTMP, RTMPS, SRT, and WHIP each buy you on ApexStream — plan gates (SRT/WHIP on Creator+), and when plain RTMP still wins.
RSS feeds that don't break: caching, enclosures, and download analytics
Fifteen-minute feed cache, opt-in enclosure tracking behind a verified base URL, and why Spotify pulls never count as downloads.
Reserving AI minutes: the accounting behind AI Clips
AI Clips reserves minutes before dispatch, refunds known failures, documents the timeout edge case, and allows one job per recording.
Replying to chat: the path from one text box to three platforms
One studio text box fans out via YouTube liveChatId, Facebook page tokens, and Twitch IRC — sent means at least one platform accepted it.
Portrait 9:16: the re-encode path and why it's a Scale feature
Why live 16:9→9:16 destination re-encode is a Scale/Enterprise path — the CPU cost, the rejected landscape fallback, and the clean error.
Polling three chat networks without melting
Unified chat polls YouTube with quota circuit-breakers, Facebook with comment cursors, and Twitch over IRC — Hobby+ only.
The life of a recording: Recording, Stitching…, Encoding…, Uploading…, Ready
Every Media Library recording badge explained from the real pipeline: capture, stitch, process, upload, ready — and what failed means.
How guest invite links actually work
Signed 24-hour guest JWTs, Redis short codes, and why Web Studio invites are time-boxed passes—not mid-show revoke tickets.
Gated recordings: what Over Storage, Over Plan Length, and Plan Downgraded really mean
We keep the file and lock playback. Three gate labels, a 14-day downgrade window, and how to unlock without losing data.
The Facebook audio rule: why 44.1 kHz exists in our relay
Why ApexStream resamples Facebook Live to 44.1 kHz while every other destination stays at 48 kHz — and why creators never set this.
The EDL: how non-destructive podcast editing becomes real audio
Podcast Studio never rewrites your source. An edit decision list of keep segments drives the mastering worker to a new master.