Dubsmash’s Android Video Pipeline

Requirements for our Android App Android drives most of our traffic in terms of users, so building a global mobile video communication platform is just not possible without it.  When we started building our Android client back in late 2014, we were facing quite a challenge when it comes to video creation: our Android users don’t always have… Read More

Go, auth yourself!

Back in late 2014, Dubsmash was mostly a monolithic project. A big fat Django 1.8 project, running on python2.7 that got the job done exactly as we needed. In the early days, that was good and simple — but at some point we needed user authentication in our app.  All we had to do was… Read More

Android AV specialists: Gear up!

Audio and video processing plays an important role at Dubsmash. While building our fast-growing video communication platform, we haven’t found the right forum for people in the mobile video and audio space to exchange and present their ideas and work in Berlin. So we thought, let’s kick off an Android audio and video meet-up on our own. For… Read More

#dubhack16 – Our first hackathon at Dubsmash HQ

On the weekend of 21/22.5.2016 we hosted our first Hackathon at Dubsmash HQ in Berlin. Nearly 50 hackers from all over Europe showed what they could build with our API in just 24 hours. We started early in the morning with a short welcome speech from our CTO Daniel, and then the teams began to hack.… Read More

Cassandra User Group Meetup @ Dubsmash

Tim Specht, tech lead at Dubsmash,  has given a talk about Cassandra and TitanDB usage at Dubsmash at the Cassandra User Group Meetup on 28.4.2016. He talks about an implementation to store a social graph between users so they can send and receive video messages from their friends on Dubsmash. At Dubsmash, we store our… Read More

Dubsmash 2.0 is live!

Hey everyone! I’m excited to announce the worldwide launch of Dubsmash 2.0! We completely re-engineered the Dubsmash experience to enable people around the world to communicate through video within the application. The previous version of Dubsmash allowed users to easily create videos and share them with their friends through external messaging platforms. With Dubsmash 2.0… Read More