Vimeo Engineering Blog

Android Instant Apps, step-by-step: how Vimeo went about it

Vimeo’s journey to a 4MB video player…

Vimeo is adopting tus!

Big news, friends: today we’re thrilled to announce that Vimeo will be providing a new way for API developers to upload videos, making it speedier and easier than ever before! This new service will use tus, an open and resumable upload protocol.

How a hackathon idea turned into an official Vimeo app

One of the great perks of working at Vimeo is that we’re given time to work on something not yet associated with a product roadmap. We call this the Vimeo Jam, and it can include research, working on a feature we wish our apps had, or…

Automated type inference for dynamically typed programs

Recently, we released a tool called Psalm that’s designed to check PHP code for potential errors. We use it at Vimeo as part of our build process, and it helps us stop bugs from making it into production code.

Orchestrating GCE Instances with Ansible

Here at Vimeo, I’ve been trying to find the sweet spot between designing immutable infrastructure and retaining the ability to identify single resources within a homogenous group. I’ve recently adopted Ansible into my toolkit for just that. This post is going…

Improving load balancing with a new consistent-hashing algorithm

Improving HAProxy load balancing for…

Boosting app performance with reflectionless (de)serialization

By Kevin Zetterstrom and Anthony Restaino

As any native app developer will tell you, API responsiveness and application performance are directly correlated with a positive user experience …