What we like: Go binary or run as a container (includes official Helm chart). Resize images via URLs, which can (and should) be signed. Can serve files from cloud storage (S3, GCS, etc). Can compress, crop, fill, blur, watermark and convert to desired formats. Emits metrics to Prometheus, New Relic & Datadog. Open source or cloud service.
What we don't like: Designed to focus just on image resizing - you need to configure your own caching and HTTPS proxy, and other non-core features - but this is a deliberate tradeoff for security & performance. No official images for Windows or arm64.
What we like: Designed to work particularly well for use cases with lots of similar files that don’t change often. Snapshot command stores the state of the current working directory - execute as you make changes like a git commit. Pack command compresses the snapshots. Very fast snapshot extract. Open source and works on Windows, Linux, macOS.
What we don't like: Snapshot names have restricted allowed characters e.g. period is not allowed which would be useful for version numbering. Pre-compiled binaries Linux-only so you need to build yourself with Rust.
What we like: Work with field names rather than positional indices. Add new fields, run aggregations, colorized, tabular pretty-print. Operates with streams so only a single record is in memory at one time (unless needed for certain operations like sort) i.e. minimal footprint. Single binary (Golang, open source) with packages for Windows, Linux, macOS.
What we don't like: Uses its own color scheme rather than inheriting current shell profile. Lots of power in the Miller DSL and the built-in command verbs can do a lot, but it’s another programming language to use for custom transformations.
New betas & early release programs
We also include some of the more interesting beta and early access releases. Here's the ones we featured this week. View the live list on Beta Console.