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
There is a point in many serverless platforms where a Step Functions workflow that once felt elegant starts to feel like a mini application platform of its own. I have seen this happen in teams that are doing many things correctly: they standardized orchestration, they improved visibility, and they moved fragile glue logic out of Lambdas. Then six months later, the workflow has 100+ states, a maze
Overview Let's get our hands dirty. This part covers the full setup and the actual demo: deploy PayLedger to both regions, wire up Route 53 failover, configure the Agent Space, inject three simultaneous faults, and walk through exactly what the agent found. Quick recap from Part 1: PayLedger is a demo payment ledger deployed to ap-southeast-1 (primary) and ap-northeast-1 (secondary) with Route 5
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