In the fast-paced world of live streaming, the quality of user experience directly impacts viewer retention and satisfaction. I'm excited to share how Twitch transformed its monitoring capabilities through Quality of User Experience (QoUX), an initiative that has allowed us to understand user behavior, catch user-impacting issues faster and with lower effort, and respond quickly.

The story of how Twitch transitioned from

The idea for this project began when a coworker and I were talking about NVIDIA’s photo-realistic generated human faces using StyleGAN and…

I’m a big fan of small code changes that can have large impact. This may seem like an obvious thing to state, but let me explain:

Curious how Twitch Identity services address scalability and performance challenges related to authentication?

Meet PogDroid, our beloved Android app to watch the latest memes unfold live while on the go. Buckle up: This is PogDroid’s adventure!

VP9 will soon help Twitch offer a better viewing experience for premium esports and partner channels

A sum type combines many possible differently-typed values into a single value, expressed in Swift as an enum.

Today Twitch is releasing Twirp, an RPC framework we use for communication between backend servers written in Go.

Because of its scalability and low cost, HTTP streaming is now widely used for live broadcasting on the open Internet. A number of…

By: Jeff Gong, Software Engineer, jeffgon@twitch.tv Sahil Dhanju, Software Engineer Intern Chih-Chiang Lu, Senior Software Engineer…

By: Jeff Gong, Software Engineer, jeffgon@twitch.tv Sahil Dhanju, Software Engineer Intern Chih-Chiang Lu, Senior Software Engineer…

On the Twitch mobile team, we care a lot about making sure we use the best tools available to build our apps. React Native is a topic that…

Contact: Tarek Amara, Video Processing Engineer, amatarek@twitch.tv Yueshi Shen, Principal Research Engineer, yshen@twitch.tv

At Twitch, we use CocoaPods, but not just for consuming external libraries like 1PasswordExtension and google-cast-sdk. We also use them…

Get ready, Houston. Twitch is coming to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing!

Twitch has approximately 125 database hosts serving OLTP workloads in production, usually as part of a cluster. Approximately 4% run MySQL…

iOS versioning is a seemingly simple problem. All you need to do is give your app a version number and you’re done, right? Not quite. In…

Chat is a core part of the Twitch experience. Rendering new chat lines dozens of times a second on the client turns out to be a very…

When I first went to GopherCon with Twitch two years ago, the Go language had already changed the way I write software. Twitch’s chat…

Today Twitch welcomed 20 very impressive high-school ladies who are participating in Girls Who Code’s summer program.

Here at Twitch, we’ve been working hard to make evidence-driven decision-making a central part of how we build great products. Data…

We use Go at Twitch for many of our busiest systems. Its simplicity, safety, performance, and readability make it a good tool for the…

As part of our ongoing work to make Twitch more secure, we’re updating the Twitch website to be served over HTTPS. Going forward, this will…