Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough

Re:Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough by moron4hire on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:02PM (#36188439)

I briefly worked for a major corporation 15 years ago that did this with SQL Server to create distributed worker processes to handle all the AI-generated used car listings and photo recolorings [0] for almost all of the used car lots in the country.

[0] Why take hundreds of photos of Honda Civics in red, green, blue, and black when you already have a dozen in white?

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Re:Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough by dylan604 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:49PM (#36188913)

Why even take the dozen in white when they have a model you can render in any manner? Most car commercials do not have real cars in them. Maybe the shots of a car actually in motion, but most of the static shots are 3D models placed onto backgrounds. I don't know why, but I was surprised by this when I worked in a post house that did a lot of car commercials. One of the roles for a coworker was to get flown around to locations to take the images for the background plates using photogrammetry. "Can't fly an Alexa through the back glass to zoom in on the dash now can we" was one comment.

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Re:Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough by moron4hire on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:03PM (#36189047)

Again, 15 years ago, this was a web app company, and Honda ain't giving any models to no used care sales anything.

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