Transloadit Blog

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!

Yesterday at 10:49 a.m., we had an issue that affected 2.7% of our customers.

A few weeks ago, we have emailed all of our customers who are using the /image/optimize Robot with a custom value for its png_tool parameter, informing them about the upcoming removal of said parameter and how it might break backwards compatibility for them.

For a long time now, Transloadit has had a system in place to decide which encoding jobs are handled first. Since it costs a lot less time and resources to spawn a job than to actually process it, we regularly need to scale up machines in order to handle whatever our end users are throwing at us.