google-cloud-functions

I have a confession to make. I have a preference for mobile development over web frontend. Don’t get me wrong, I’m falling in love with React, but I’ve been doing iOS development for many years before joining Vibbio and it’s where I can do a lot very fast. I also love backend development, specially Node since I did some performance tests 5+ years ago. And Serverless… butterflies in my stomach....

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....