Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for a CMS, or creating social media cards from uploaded content. The usual advice is to install FFmpeg on your server and write extraction scripts. That works until you need it in production. FFmpeg can extract a single frame from any video using two fla
Kubernetes and AI have become unlikely bedfellows—and the numbers prove it. New data from CNCF and SlashData reveals that two-thirds of organizations running generative AI models have standardized on Kubernetes for orchestration. But here's the thing: it's not because Kubernetes magically solves AI problems. It's because the engineering fundamentals that make Kubernetes valuable—standardization, r
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Zapier doesn't support FFmpeg. You can't install binaries, run shell commands, or execute video processing natively in a Zap. If you've tried, you've probably hit the same wall everyone else does. But Zapier can make HTTP requests. And that's all you need. By calling FFmpeg Micro's REST API from a Zapier webhook action, you can transcode, compress, convert,
If you've ever tried to download a video from Reddit, you've probably ended up with a silent MP4 file. No audio. No error. Just a video that should have sound but doesn't. This isn't a bug in your downloader. It's how Reddit stores videos. Most video platforms (YouTube, Twitter, etc.) serve videos as a single muxed file — video and audio combined in one stream. Easy to download, plays anywhere. Re
How Cloudflare Built Resilience: Lessons from Their Infrastructure Overhaul When a single misconfiguration can cascade across a global CDN and take down customer traffic, every deployment becomes a high-stakes decision. Cloudflare recently completed a massive push to make their infrastructure fundamentally more resilient—and their approach offers critical lessons for anyone operating at scale. M