Halfway through each month, our newsletter for developers: The Dev Times, brings three reads that our own developers found interesting on the web, and two Transloadit updates that may interest you.

Lightpanda – a headless browser built for AI

Lightpanda – a headless browser built for AI

Need a browser for resource-intensive web scraping and AI workflows? Lightpanda is an open-source, purpose-built headless browser written from scratch in Zig, meaning it's 11x faster and uses 9x less RAM than a headless version of Chrome. It's designed for scale, has a minimal footprint, and features instant startup, making it ideal for empowering AI agents or automating any website into a programmatic interface. Try it ›

VitePlus – Vite, but with batteries included

VitePlus – Vite, but with batteries included

VitePlus is everything you love about Vite, plus everything else you've been duct-taping together. It contains all the things you need to manage your JavaScript toolchain, including a built-in testing framework, linter, formatter and build tools. Availability is currently limited, but you can sign up to request early access. Find out more ›

“Fast” – a meditation on speed in software

“Fast” – a meditation on speed in software

In this essay, Catherine Jue explores the real impact of performant software, and how it shapes the way we work and how productive we are. The text is short and sweet, but delivers an important message that has been somewhat forgotten with the advent of LLMs, and a focus on capability over performance: fast software tends to change our behavior for the better. Read more ›

Post-mortem: Redis connection exhaustion in us-east

Post-mortem: Redis connection exhaustion in us-east

On September 3, 2025 (US‑East), Transloadit experienced elevated queue times and, in periods, stalled job processing due to Redis connection exhaustion. The issue was stabilized the same day through a hotpatch and configuration changes. This post explains what happened, how we mitigated the problem, and what we are doing to prevent a recurrence. Learn more ›

Uppy 5.0: headless components and hooks

Uppy 5.0: headless components and hooks

The dog didn’t eat our homework, so we’re here to show you what we’ve been up to over the past year. We are proud to announce Uppy 5.0! Our faithful file-uploading companion has been attending all the training courses and is now equipped with the most requested feature of all time: truly composable, headless UI components. For years, developers have found themselves stuck between Dashboard’s kitchen-sink approach and the bare-bones drag-drop plugin, with little room to build something that fits just right. With Uppy 5.0, we're giving you the building blocks to finally make this happen. See what’s new ›