01 Engineering blog
FFmpeg fits on Vercel. Size isn't the problem
Read the measured numbers behind FFmpeg on Vercel. The binary is 76 MB against a 250 MB cap, and the 4.5 MB body limit is what actually stops you.
Abdelrahman Essawy 8 min
The Rendobar Blog
Engineering blog
Explore how Rendobar is built. FFmpeg internals, Cloudflare architecture, and the engineering decisions behind a serverless media API.
02 Engineering blog
Parsing ffprobe output is harder than it looks
Read a media file's metadata with ffprobe, then watch the traps: rotation, HDR, fake image durations, missing channel layouts, and cover art as video.
Abdelrahman Essawy 3 min
03 Engineering blog
Why ffmpeg.wasm can't run in a Cloudflare Worker
Read why ffmpeg.wasm can't run in a standard Cloudflare Worker. workerd blocks runtime WASM compilation, and the 31 MB core barely survives gzip.
Abdelrahman Essawy 10 min