Things have been nothing less than crazy for the last 2 months. We have gone from 300.000 uploads to almost 1.000.000. During peaks, we are now fully utilizing 20 machines (160 cores), and we are still continuing to grow quickly.

Unfortunately this also meant that a lot of our time went into scaling the service, rather than building shiny new things. As of today we have caught up with some of the most pressing issues, allowing us to allocate time towards other improvements again.

The first of those are some small improvements for our assembly detail page. Rather than dumping a huge JSON object at the bottom of every page, we are now rendering all aspects of an assembly in a useful way.

This includes listing all uploads and results in a table like this:

With detailed information showing up in a modal overlay:

While we were at it, we also improved the information we provide in case there was an error while executing the assembly:

To make this change even sweeter, we migrated to a faster database server once again, after an EC2 failure caused us to move to a weaker fail-over machine for a while. As opposed to our last announced downtime which lasted 4 minutes, we were now able to perform the switch without any downtime whatsoever : ).

The assembly list page now also shows the used redirect_url and notify_url.

Anyway, let us know how you like the changes!

--fg

Update: The maintenance was a success, we were down for only 4 minutes.

Dear customers,

in the past four weeks we have seen a stunning growth of over 400% in both encoding volume as well as revenue.

While that is generally good news, we have to do some maintenance on our database to keep up with the increased amount of requests we are servicing.

For that reason we are announcing a 1 hour maintenance window starting at 9pm CEST (7pm UTC) on Thursday, July 7th 2011.

We are expecting only a brief downtime of ~10 minutes while we are migrating over to a faster database server with improved indexes. But in the worst case we might need up to 1 hour to bring the service back online.

If you have any questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to e-mail me at: felix.geisendoerfer@transloadit.com

Best Regards,
Felix Geisendörfer, Co-founder

Follow us on Twitter to get detailed updates on Thursday.

Today we are happy to announce the 1.0 release of two gems for the ruby community.

The first gem is our ruby sdk, which can be used to create assembly jobs from your ruby backend applications.

The second gem is our rails sdk, which simplifies the process of getting our jquery plugin integrated into your rails forms.

Together those two gems should cover the majority of use cases, but please let us know if you find anything missing!

--fg