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In Vibbio we transcode a lot of files. We need to make versions of the videos that will play nicely in web browsers, and we need to generate thumbnails. What we had Our first solution was to use FFMPEG, an incredibly powerful tool, running on App Engine in the Google Cloud. Since transcoding is not the core of what we do, we preferred to use an external solution to do it....

Starting in a new job always comes with a period of learning and understanding. During those weeks, I always have the itching feeling of not shipping anything valuable, of only chipping away at the unimportant, of not getting close enough to what really matters. ...