#ops

Here are our posts tagged: ops:

• Announcing the Transloadit Terraform Provider

  Today, we are very happy to announce Transloadit's very own Terraform Provider Plugin! In this blog post, we'll go about explaining why that has got us so excited, and how...
  integrations  ops  terraform  aws  walkthrough
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  May 22, 2020

• Opening in a third datacenter, and other upcoming network changes

  Opening in Singapore
  ops  company  performance  reliability  security
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  December 20, 2018

• Launching a new version of ImageMagick

  At Transloadit, it is our desire to give you the best possible encoding experience, and one of the main factors involved is making sure that we are using the latest...
  stack  ops  open-source  image-resize-robot  documentation  image-manipulation-service
  Abdelhadi Khiati  ·  July 20, 2017

• Announcing a new Rate Limiter

  At Transloadit, we strive to avoid limiting our customers' usage in any way. For this reason, we have thus far only had a single rate limiter in place, which limits...
  assembly  infrastructure  ops  performance  integrations
  Tim Koschützki  ·  October 7, 2016

• Beefing up security: SSL upgraded

  As we have stated many times before, 100% security is a myth. Of course, that is not to say that we aren’t doing everything we can to keep the use...
  infrastructure  security  ops  stack
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  July 1, 2016

• Redis problems

  Sometimes, things go wrong at Transloadit. When that happens, we want to be transparent about it and own up to our mistakes. In that light, I'm disclosing an issue that...
  infrastructure  ops  post-mortem  reliability
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  May 30, 2016

• Upgrading our Operating Systems to Ubuntu's Trusty

  Time for an engineering update! At Transloadit, we have been long-time Ubuntu aficionados. To back that statement up - look what I found during a recent move to a new...
  infrastructure  ops  stack
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  October 26, 2015

• Watch Your Language (Automatically)

  I was writing internal documentation on how I set up automated language checking at Transloadit. Halfway through, I figured this could be useful to the rest of the world as...
  howto  open-source  ops
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  September 16, 2015

• Celebrating that we can scale up 1500 machines

  Encoding is hard work for servers. When we started this business, we knew from the start that it would be much easier for customers to send us jobs than it...
  infrastructure  ops  performance  scaling
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  August 21, 2015

• Upgrading Encoding Engines

  Transloadit is a small team of engineers, it is code, it is a highly scalable platform, it is a bunch of quirky robots that you can tell to import and...
  ops  stack  audio-concat-robot  audio-encode-robot  audio-encoding-service  meta-write-robot  video-concat-robot  video-encode-robot  video-encoding-service  video-merge-robot  video-thumbs-robot
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  July 31, 2015

• S3 Changes

  Since we started in 2009, Amazon S3 has been our primary way of doing file exports. At that time, the best Amazon CLI tool we could find was Tim Kay's...
  ops  s3-store-robot  file-exporting-service
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  February 5, 2015

• Further Stability and Performance Upgrades

  We are excited to announce a few updates that we have been working on over the past few weeks. These changes will hopefully serve to further stabilize the platform and...
  infrastructure  ops  performance  scaling
  Tim Koschützki  ·  July 24, 2012

• Last Night's Elevated Queue Times

  Last night we experienced an outage that we promised to shed some more light on. At 22.35 CET it came to our attention that we had elevated queue times.
  infrastructure  ops  post-mortem  scaling
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  March 31, 2012

• Scheduled Database Maintenance

  Update: The maintenance was a success, we were down for only 4 minutes.
  infrastructure  ops
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  July 5, 2011

• Switching to Amazon Route 53

  As you probably know, Transloadit has been running its production infra on Amazon's cloud since day 1 - our block stores, encoding servers, load balancers, the full monty. Except for...
  infrastructure  ops  performance  reliability  scaling
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  March 18, 2011

• Faster x264 Encoding

  After a few recent complaints from our customers, it became evident that our x264 encoding configuration was way too slow. Not only had we missed some critical optimizations when configuring...
  infrastructure  ops  performance
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  March 1, 2011

• Upgrading to 8-Core Machines

  Last night, we switched our default machine type from Amazon's c1.medium (2 core) instances, to x1.large.
  infrastructure  ops
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  March 1, 2011

• Transloadit and HAProxy Logging

  At Transloadit, we use HAProxy "The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer", so that we can offer different services on one port. For instance, depending on the hostname, a request...
  howto  infrastructure  ops
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  August 12, 2010