The Benefits of Reusing Code For Software DevelopmentRead More

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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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Detect and Prevent Phishing with Low-Code WorkflowsRead More

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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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Smart image cropping using saliencyRead More

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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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Amazon S3 path-based URLs deprecationRead 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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Measuring image similarity with N-dimensional vectorsRead More

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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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Filestack COVID19 PreparednessRead More

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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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Why Filestack Makes Sense For E-CommerceRead More

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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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10 Top Code Learning ResourcesRead More

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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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A Look Into DevWeek Austin 2019Read More

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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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Filestack Image Captioning With Attention NetworksRead More

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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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Thanks for having us, TechCrunch!Read More

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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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From MNIST Classification to Intelligent Check ProcessingRead More

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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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Complete Image File Extension Lists for DevelopersRead More

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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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A Closer Look at Filestack TransformationsRead More

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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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Stop Malicious Code from Infiltrating Your SVG FilesRead More

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If you’re a developer working with SVG or HTML files, ensuring proper security should be your top priority. Malicious code in the form of viruses and malware can infect nearly any file type. In this article, we’ll explore how Filestack’s virus detection SDK allows users can leverage Filestack Workflows and virus detection to automatically detect malicious code from the target file, thus […]

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How To Upload Large FilesRead More

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Uploading large files is a constant headache for developers. Pains like latency, speed, timeouts and interruptions, especially over mobile devices, are difficult to avoid. However, over the years, it is becoming increasingly important that your application be able to handle large files. At Filestack, we provide file infrastructure for over 100,000 applications worldwide, handling file […]

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