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Filestack is a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing file uploads and management for web and mobile applications. Our user-friendly API seamlessly integrates with major cloud services, offering developers a reliable and efficient file handling experience.
Dear Filestack Customers & Partners, My name is Kegan Blumenthal, General Manager of Filestack at Idera, Inc. I am very pleased to announce that Idera, Inc. has acquired Filestack, which will join Idera’s Developer Tools Business Unit. You may have seen the press announcement, but I want to personally welcome you to the Idera family. […]
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TL;DR – We are not exposed to Log4J but out of an abundance of caution, have blocked any attempts to exploit it. Our official statement on Log4J from our Director of Compliance and Information Security, Greg Fowl: Like many, Filestack has closely followed the developments surrounding the log4j vulnerability. As soon as information about the […]
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This is a tutorial on Amazon S3 Multipart Uploads with Javascript. Multipart Upload is a nifty feature introduced by AWS S3. It lets us upload a larger file to S3 in smaller, more manageable chunks. Individual pieces are then stitched together by S3 after all parts have been uploaded. The individual part uploads can even […]
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Amazon S3 multipart uploads let us upload a larger file to S3 in smaller, more manageable chunks. Individual pieces are then stitched together by S3 after we signal that all parts have been uploaded. The individual part uploads can even be done in parallel. If a single part upload fails, it can be restarted again […]
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From .MP3, .M4A, .AAC and more, there are many audio file formats you can expect to come across as a developer handling audio/video content in your application. Like in our last article The Complete Image File Extension List for Developers, and The Complete List of Video File Formats and Codecs, in this article we’ll delve […]
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In software development, files have special endings called extensions that show what they are and how to use them. These extensions act like labels, telling us what’s inside the file. Knowing these extensions is important for developers because they work with different tools and languages. In this blog post, we’ll look at the most common […]
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From .WEBM, .OGG, .MP3, .MP4 and more, there are many video file formats you can expect to come across as a developer handling audio/video content in your application. Like in our last article The Complete Image File Extension List for Developers, and How to Choose the Best Audio File Format and Codec, in this article […]
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Retaining good developers is a critical task that companies have to actively pursue. Developers need to be supported, engaged, and interested in the work; otherwise, boredom in their role could lead to them seeking opportunities elsewhere. Whether you are a company leader, team lead, or a developer yourself, understanding what attracts and interests developers to […]
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Nowadays, the rapid development of technology has made automation the new norm. Thanks to AI-powered algorithms and machine learning (ML) technologies, many digital companies have been able to automate several aspects of their business: cybersecurity, document processing, app testing, cloud computing, and so on. As the graph below shows, global spending on robotic process automation […]
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Modern software development has rapidly evolved the focus of the field from creating new and innovative software to finding ways to make development processes sustainable, smarter, more productive, and faster. Consequently, tech solutions – like inbound routing features – are now inseparable from business operations. Thanks to the unanimity of software within various fields, teams […]
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61% of professionals now prefer a fully remote environment to a conventional office space. A workforce that can work from anywhere allows businesses to draw upon a much larger pool of talent than before. It also allows them to improve productivity, especially if professionals are working in different time zones. Good communication is essential to […]
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Cybercrime has risen significantly in the past few years, threatening not only your users’ data, but your platform’s stability as a whole. One particularly effective and damaging aspect of cybercrime is phishing, or the practice of sending deceptive messages designed to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive or personally identifying information. In 2020, the FBI’s […]
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Worldwide IT enterprise software spending was around $500 billion in 2020 and is expected to increase to over $550 billion by 2022. Software developers are in demand worldwide, but there is still a lot of competition for the top roles. So, it is essential to stand out. Typically, software developers analyze customer needs and then […]
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Businesses handle various types of valuable information such as customer data, financial information, and project files. These are considered to be digital assets because, just like a physical asset, they hold a certain value. Digital asset security is crucial to your business success. While having a web app opens up a world of opportunities […]
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You’ve chosen your team and you’re developing exciting new software. But things are going awry. You keep noticing team members arguing with each other and glancing at the clock. So what’s going wrong? It’s likely a lack of communication. The importance of soft skills in STEM environments is often overlooked. Yet, it’s one that […]
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We all know how it feels to be tired from work. You’ve had a few late nights, you’re feeling the pressure of a deadline, or you’re a little under the weather. You can’t wait for the weekend to arrive so you can unwind before doing it all over again. But burnout is different. It […]
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In recent months, we’ve all had to find new ways of working with one another. Collaboration in the workplace has never been more important – and since Covid-19, we’ve been forced to change the way we operate so that teamwork can continue. It’s not been easy to maintain a degree of normality, but businesses have […]
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Hi, I’m Gracen Hoyle and I spent this summer as an intern at Filestack. As a developer I went into my summer internship to gain practical work experience and I wanted to work on a project that was both relevant and interesting. Given the amount of time we’ve all been spending on Zoom, I […]
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The working world might look different in 2020, but summer internships at Filestack went ahead at full speed. My name is Gracen Hoyle, and I was the Filestack intern this summer as part of the Students + Startups (S+S) program. Originally hailing from North Carolina, I’ve called San Antonio home for around two years now. […]
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Framing and composition are fundamental in any kind of photography and imagery. As is the case for many art forms, there are multiple levels of perfection that you can aim for when dealing with those concepts. Images come in an endless variety of dimensions and aspect ratios, making smart image cropping important for faster, more […]
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Last year Amazon AWS announced plans to deprecate the path-style access to the S3 buckets. In that model, Amazon S3 URLs follow the format where bucket name is specified in the path part of the URL, as shown below: <i>https://s3.</i><i>Region</i><i>.amazonaws.com/</i><i>bucket-name</i><i>/</i><i>key name</i> For some time now, Amazon AWS has provided an alternate way to access S3 […]
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In machine learning and pattern recognition, a feature is an individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed. […] a feature vector is an n-dimensional vector of numerical features that represent some object. – Wikipedia Isn’t it amazing that you can represent something as a 500-dimensional vector? Many people, especially if they are not actively engaged in […]
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We are in the middle of a global pandemic and it is affecting all of our families, our businesses, our communities in a very significant way. During this unprecedented situation, I wanted to update you on how we are approaching this situation at Filestack. For all those who have been impacted by the virus, our […]
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Today’s successful e-commerce businesses prioritize customer experience. Fast response times, clear photos, aligned text, reliable performance, and an intuitive and feature-rich interface all impact brand perception and customer satisfaction. These factors will even affect your e-commerce website’s ability to attract online customers because major search engines, like Google, factor load speeds and responsiveness in their […]
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How often have you clicked a link, and then bounced because the page took too long to load? Basic studies in addition to knowledge of web application performance are proving that website speed is a huge factor in determining user experience. By 4 seconds, 25% of your users have already bounced, with more navigating away with […]
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As the market for mobile uploads continues to expand, so does the potential for failure and error. The Visual Networking Index from Cisco estimates that current mobile data traffic has increased to 18 times its 2011 rate. These growth rates are still accelerating. There is still plenty of room for the market to grow — […]
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In just a few short years, machine learning has advanced to the point where it can make both our personal and our professional lives easier in a wide range of different ways. As a subset of the larger topic of artificial intelligence, machine learning is simply classified as the use of various statistical techniques that […]
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In today’s technology-driven society, the ability to code is a high-value skill that opens up job opportunities and offers unique ways to make an impact on the world. If you’re interested in learning to code, you may find the following resources helpful. Let’s take a look! Codeacademy Codeacademy is an online educational portal where people […]
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Picture this. You’re standing at the voting booth, you’ve made sure your voter registration is up to date and you’ve done extensive research on which candidate you’ll cast the ballot for. But then something happens. As the ballot flashes into your line of sight, you see a name that you can’t help but associate with […]
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The Filestack team had the privilege of attending DevNetwork’s DeveloperWeek Expo and Hackathon this year in Austin, TX. This is where DevNetwork’s largest network of developers in the region came together to learn and compete in Austin’s largest challenge-driven hackathon, with over $12,000 in prizes awarded to winners. Filestack provided a challenge to hackers that […]
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Overview Have you ever thought about how your brain understands the world when you look at it? Your brain is an extremely powerful processor which interprets everything you see in your entire life. But what actually happens in your mind? When you look at a scene, your eyes capture and store it in a […]
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Women programmers are a force to be reckoned with. That’s why we’re so excited to have partnered with Django Girls – a leading organization in advancing women in tech and web development. Django Girls provides free workshops for those just starting out and gives participants the tools to grow their technical knowledge, all while creating […]
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Every developer knows that the images that live in your application carry a substantial amount of weight when evaluating the health of your site. When your site’s performance is maximized, not only is your user experience top-notch, but your site is given a major boost from an SEO perspective. When images aren’t properly optimized, your […]
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The twenty-first century or, in other words, the Artificial Intelligence Era was started with the advent of deep learning in computer vision. Here, data scientists’ main goal was to extract visual features from images, classify them, and detect objects. As another point of view, during the past years, Natural Language Processing algorithms played an inevitable […]
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At Filestack, we love developers, so we were thrilled to be a part of an event with the brightest hackers in the business. With over 500 in attendance and over $140,000 in prizes, Filestack was able to provide hackers with API tools to upload, transform and deliver files into their applications at TechCrunch Disrupt. While […]
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As a developer, you spend incredible amounts of time creating or searching for solutions to improve image quality for your website. Images in your application and what you do with those images will make or break your site and impact your user experience. While quality images are required for the functionality of your site, the […]
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At Filestack, our mission is to create a complete toolkit for content processing that evolves with the needs of developers. We’ve built a series of use case specific tools and APIs including file uploads (1.8B uploads to date), transformations (27B content processing operations in 2019), intelligence and delivery which can all be tied together with […]
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Filestack is heading to Disrupt™! This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt is taking place from October 2nd to 4th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and we’d love to see you there. With a history of producing content and products that stand the test of time and ever-changing technology trends, Disrupt brings together major players from […]
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Video is expanding rapidly as a medium, becoming more popular than ever as a means of sharing information, building a brand and providing actionable information that can be used in a range of applications. Video expands the volume and types of data that can be collected, stored, extracted, interpreted and used for business intelligence. On […]
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In 2018, Google changed its search ranking algorithms for mobile to include page speed. As a result, pages that load faster are going to be more likely to catch the eye – and clicks of those looking for your products or services. Otherwise, users are far more likely to abandon your page and turn to […]
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When you need to compile and share large amounts of content, coming from multiple sources in varied formats, you want a solution that makes it easy. When you’re developing an ingestion stack to control all that content, it’s critical to use the right resources. Every minute an app developer spends building an ingestion stack is […]
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Many folks don’t use HTML5 <picture> tag or webp for optimizing images (and they should!) We’ll explain how to use dynamic image sizing and webp, a new(ish) image format from Google that can make png’s and jpg’s. The results are great. We can reduce a large page from about 30MB to 5MB. We’ll look at “old school” methods to solve […]
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I heard if you can keep an image-heavy page under 5MB, it’s better than eating Açai berries. But seriously, with three lines of code, I was able to translate a 19.2 MB webpage to 4.7MB TL;DR; Using Google Chrome Developer Tools and an image processing tool, I optimized image galleries on my game sharing website by […]
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Automated analysis and information extraction from pictures of structured documents is one of the use cases we have at Filestack for applied machine learning. We are working with envelopes, receipts, invoices, and most recently: checks. Checks are a medium of a little archaic form of monetary transfers – almost unseen outside United States, nevertheless used […]
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JPEGs. PDFs. SVGs. Even for the most savvy developers, keeping track of all available image file extensions isn’t easy. Using the wrong (or suboptimal) file format could result in: Low image/video/audio quality Unnecessarily large file sizes Slow delivery of large files Inaccessibility of data within the file Simply put, knowing and understanding the many types […]
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Overview In late 2018 when we released the Document Detection service at Filestack, no one anticipated it to become an essential intelligence task alongside OCR. If you are working with images that contain documents inside, it’s essential to find your document in the image by detecting the edges and border of the document, transforming its […]
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When you scan documents like invoices or receipts, they might be rotated, folded, or blurry. To work with them you need a process to detect your document inside, generate its bounding box, transform the detected document to fit the whole image (keeping its aspect ratio), and pre-process it to increase the OCR (optical character recognition) […]
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Image transformations are Filestack’s bread and butter. With Filestack Transformations, you’re able to apply immediate transformations to any image at any URL in an intuitive and easy-to-integrate way, so that images are adjusted and corrected the moment users upload them. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Filestack Transformations to transform images without […]
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Prior to integrating image tagging into our our API, here at Filestack we evaluated four of the most popular image tagging services. To determine which service to use, we looked at features, pricing, image size limits, rate limits, performance and accuracy. Ultimately, we decided to go with Google Vision, but the other services might be a good […]
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File uploads used to be difficult to implement for developers. Luckily, as web standards have advanced, so have file uploads. AJAX (XMLHttpRequests) now has ubiquitous browser support, and can be safely relied on to handle file uploads. And even better, the new FormData interface allows you to easily grab all of the form’s keys/values in […]
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