Posts from 2022

Recently, I've been wondering which of our Robots deserves some more attention. One of our true unsung heroes, a reliable workhorse that tends to be neglected, is the /audio/loop Robot.

Recently, a customer reached out to us, expressing their desire to provision Transloadit with Hashicorp's Terraform. We already have the Terraform Provider Plugin available, which leverages our API to set up an account and Templates. However, as the customer pointed out, one key feature was missing. Template Credentials still had to be created and managed through the console UI.

Upgrading stacks is a big deal, and we make sure to be careful with the versions we choose to offer to maximize compatability, as well as to bring the latest and greatest features offered by the FFmpeg team.

Transloadit now has an official swag shop! Check out all of our cool merchandise, such as Uppy phone cases, Transloadit mugs and comfy clothes, by visiting shop.transloadit.com. Read ahead to find out what you have to do in order to receive some free swag!

It was only recently that we released our /file/hash Robot, and it's already time for us to announce the release of our next Robot - /image/merge.

It's time again to welcome a new SDK! This time around, it's for the powerful cross-platform development framework Flutter. From the launch of 0.2.0, every aspect of the Transloadit API is supported, including resumable file uploads using the Tus protocol. The SDK is still in beta, so it is not currently production ready. However, more users testing the SDK and looking for bugs, will help to make it more stable over time.

Our beloved /image/optimize Robot and /image/resize Robot are our most powerful tools for combating bloated file sizes and long execution times. We'll take a look today at some real-world figures to see exactly how much these Robots can reduce your file sizes.

Security needs to be at the forefront of every developer's mind in the modern day and age. Unfortunately, not every user will have good intentions with their file uploads, and it's important to have measures in place to deal with these kind of files. Today, we're going to take a look at several approaches you can take to stop different types of malicious files from reaching your servers and end-users.

Sometimes pricing can be a hard topic to navigate, especially when we have to make the difficult decision to raise prices for existing customers. However, as we grow and learn this can sometimes be unavoidable. In the rare occasion that we do raise prices, we try to be as transparent as possible with our thoughts behind these decisions.

It's time again to welcome a new Robot to the Transloadit family. Say hello to the /file/hash Robot. With its introduction, it's now possible to hash any file that's part of your Assembly execution process, proving particularly useful in verifying the integrity of your file.

Our Smart CDN is one of the most exciting features we have released in the past few years. It helps our users receive the fastest request times we can offer, and despite it being in beta, it's making great strides every day. Today, we are excited to announce that we have updated the list of compatible Robots to now include our AI-powered /image/facedetect Robot!

Postman is a service all about APIs, whether you're looking to create one or use one. We'll be looking at the latter use-case today, to see how you can set Postman up to use the Transloadit API to return a list of all your recent Assemblies, and also how we can create new Assemblies. This is particularly useful if you're directly using the Transloadit REST API, rather than an SDK, allowing you to debug your requests much quicker than it would otherwise take you.

For our blog today, we'll be taking a quick look at our Transloadit CDN and the /html/convert Robot, while taking a small detour to take a look at how we can use the /script/run Robot to add even more functionality to our current arsenal of Robots.

Its been a while since we showcased the /text/speak Robot on a let's build. So today, we're going to show off some of its potential by building an automatic alt text to speech image generator. The focus of today's project is combining our Robots in an interesting way to ultimately improve the accessibility of your project.

Today's post is all about the step-by-step process of creating a Template to create a shareable music card that you can use to post your favorite songs on social media.

While we are proud how versatile our API is, obviously there are always more things, that it cannot do just yet. Fortunately it is easy to integrate it with third-party libraries and APIs.

As a remote company, we employ people from around the globe. It just so happens that Alex, our lead designer, lives in Ukraine. He woke up to explosions in his city of Dnipro last Thursday and he has been sharing updates with us when he could. This has given our team front-row seats to his life under these unimaginable circumstances, and it has been absolutely devastating for all of us.

It has been a while since we've made a Let's Build, so welcome back to the series.

At Transloadit, we like to focus on things that need to be improved. After being in operation for thirteen years, we continue to find those each day. While it leads to a lot of good, this mindset can also make it easy to underappreciate the things that are going well. We tend to quickly move onto the next issue and forget about whatever we just accomplished. The things that we forced into existence, often through hard work and dedication, all too quickly get mistaken for the new status quo.

First off, we have published some thoughts about work over at /jobs/ and /about/. These explain some of the choices we make and could help you figure out if we are a match culturally.