Transloadit Blog

At Transloadit, we are huge fans of the Go programming language. Not only due to its simplicity, but also its ability to power efficient systems. In fact, one of our core components, which is responsible for managing the clusters of machines on AWS, is written using Go. And so is tusd, the reference server implementation for tus - our open protocol for resumable file uploads. That's why we were excited when we first released the official Transloadit Go SDK back in 2014.

Here's just a quick note to let you know that we've switched to a new RSS location as a result of upgrading our Jekyll website building setup.

We'd like to let you in on a little secret. We've been busy, behind the scenes, developing Transloadify, a new tool that aims to democratize Transloadit's advanced encoding capabilities, by no longer requiring developers to integrate with us. Instead, anyone who can operate the command line, can now leverage Transloadit's cloud encoding platform.

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%!