Building An Automated Video Encoding Pipeline In AWS (Graviton 2, Batch and ECS)

Last year on 11th May, Amazon launched their first 6th generation EC2 general-purpose instance, a.k.a “Graviton 2”, their next-generation Arm-based chip, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors boast up to 40% overall improvement on cost-performance ratio, compared to similar-sized M5 instances.

I’ve been meaning to build a “portable” video encoding pipeline for quite some time and this seemed like a good time and opportunity.

This whole CloudFormation template is available on my Github.

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I’m Not Dead….Yet!

Hey!!! suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?! I literally haven’t been able to follow up on anything in past 5 months, as I moved out of my shell (finally) and have been learning how to survive. I haven’t even updated people about my current status and what I’ve been up to for past few months. So, here I go everyone. I’ll probably list out things and then explain later about each and everyone of them * sigh *.

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Comic-dl : A Little Python Script’s Journey

I have been itching to write this one since the past 2 months. But, unfortunately I’ve been too busy with the Hackathons, college projects, side projects, learning new things, binge watching stuff on Netflix and basically wasting a lot of time. “Comic-dl” is literally the project that I put my most pride in. Comic-dl is a command line program to download comics and manga from various websites. The idea isn’t something new or fresh or exciting or anything. It’s just that it is the updated version and covers a lot of sites now. Over the time, I’ve invested a lot of my time (not the spare time) in building comic-dl. Continue reading “Comic-dl : A Little Python Script’s Journey”