Posts from 2016

We are happy to announce that a beta version of our new /video/adaptive Robot has been released, which contains our long-awaited support for the streaming standard MPEG-Dash!

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 the number of requests to create an assembly to 250 per minute. This has worked fairly well over the years, as it really only limits misuse of the system. 250 new assemblies per minute is quite a lot.

Our love for open source is certainly no secret and Transloadit has been steadily open sourcing our juiciest projects. As with all code, these projects require an ongoing commitment to fix bugs and make improvements. However, governing our SDKs and some of our more successful projects, such as tus.io and uppy.io, while also running the Transloadit company, was becoming too great of a task for our small team.

We are very happy and proud that Transloadit has been growing steadily over the past years. We started our business in 2009, hoping that there would be a market for the service we invented. That certainly turned out to be the case and we now have more customers than ever before.

You have heard us say it many times already: we are on a mission to change the future of uploading. If we have it our way, gone are the days of uploads being interrupted and aborted because you briefly dropped your connection. To that end, we developed tus, the open protocol for resumable file uploads.

Today, we have news about Shrine. Shrine is a toolkit that allows for easier handling of file uploads in Ruby applications, developed by Janko Marohnić. With regard to why he created Shrine, Janko has the following to say:

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 of our service as secure as possible. 100% security may be unattainable, but we sure are aiming for that 99.9%!

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 affected 81 of our customers last week.

Early this morning, word came out about a critical bug in ImageMagick, which was quickly nicknamed ImageTragick. Transloadit is a sponsor and long time user of ImageMagick, so it is no surprise that people are worried that Transloadit might be impacted by this bug. Frankly, we were worried as well.

We usually reserve this space to keep you informed about our technical progress, but today we would like to break with that trend for a bit and give you some insight into what is happening on the people side of things here at Transloadit.

We're excited to share that tus, our open standard for resumable file uploads, was featured in this month's edition of the Dutch Linux Magazine. For our English speaking readers, here's a translation of the article.

We are happy to announce that our /audio/artwork Robot is now also able to insert cover artwork into your audio files!

We would like to bring a cool upcoming event to your attention. On the 22nd and 23rd of this month, FITC will be hosting their Amsterdam event for the ninth time and we are sponsoring it this time around!

We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our robot family: the /image/facedetect Robot!