google-cloud

At VIBBIO we have adopted a devops mindset to everything we do. An essential part of such a mindset is to 🚢 the 💩 to production. In order to do so safely and with even more control we have added a new tool to our toolbox: feature toggles. The lovely people at Finn.no have developed an Open Source server for administering and using feature toggles. The project is called Unleash and is their company, but it is also gaining traction in a lot of other Norwegian companies as well....

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....