#performance

Here are our posts tagged performance:

Introducing Turbo Mode for /document/thumbs

Turbo mode for /document/thumbs emits per-page thumbnails early, reducing end-to-end time for multi-page PDFs by up to ten times. Learn when to opt out and what it means for pricin...

Kevin van Zonneveld · August 28, 2025
WeTransfer boosts efficiency with Transloadit's Smart CDN

WeTransfer, a leader in file-sharing, faced the challenge of generating and serving 2 petabytes of file previews monthly. By implementing Transloadit's Smart CDN, they not only sol...

Kevin van Zonneveld · May 23, 2024
How to reduce image file sizes without losing quality

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 rea...

Joseph Grabski · August 3, 2022
Enhancing /http/import Robot with fail fast option

Lately at Transloadit, we've been working on upgrading our /http/import Robot by adding the fail_fast parameter 💪

Joseph Grabski · June 1, 2021
Expanding to Singapore for better Asia-Pacific service

Opening in Singapore

Kevin van Zonneveld · December 20, 2018
Introducing new Rate Limiter for better performance

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 r...

Tim Koschützki · October 7, 2016
Happy 2016 from Transloadit

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Kevin van Zonneveld · December 31, 2015
Transloadit scales to 1500 machines for faster encoding

Encoding is hard work for servers. When we started this business, we knew from the start that it would be much easier for customers to send us jobs than it would be for us to proce...

Kevin van Zonneveld · August 20, 2015
Major performance enhancements for faster Assemblies

We are very pleased to announce that we have made some considerable performance upgrades over the past few weeks, which will make the average Assembly run faster by about 20-40%.

Tim Koschützki · March 4, 2015
Stability & performance boosts with enhanced scaling

We are excited to announce a few updates that we have been working on over the past few weeks. These changes will hopefully serve to further stabilize the platform and make it even...

Tim Koschützki · July 24, 2012
Discontinuing real-time encoding due to growth

on December 20th 2011 we launched a cool feature called real-time encoding which allowed us to encode videos while they were still being uploaded.

Tim Koschützki · April 25, 2012
Introducing Assembly Rate Limiting for enhanced stability

In the recent past, we have been experiencing some slowdowns, elevated queue times and error rates. Apart from Route 53, RDS and LAN outages we experienced on EC2, some of these is...

Tim Koschützki · April 18, 2012
Transloadit boosts reliability with Amazon Route 53

As you probably know, Transloadit has been running its production infra on Amazon's cloud since day 1 - our block stores, encoding servers, load balancers, the full monty. Except f...

Kevin van Zonneveld · March 18, 2011
Boosting x264 encoding speed by 20x with CPU optimizations

After a few recent complaints from our customers, it became evident that our x264 encoding configuration was way too slow. Not only had we missed some critical optimizations when c...

Felix Geisendörfer · March 1, 2011
Introducing real-time video encoding: 150x speed boost

Kevin van Zonneveld · December 20, 2010