Re:Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet
by ekurutepe on Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:10AM
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Isn't it a bit wasteful to resize all those images on the fly? I'd think it's much better to resize them at creation and serve different files as they're needed, assumption being here that dumbly serving a file is more power efficient/cheaper than rescaling a large image every time a smaller version is needed.
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Re:Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet
by zacman85 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:13AM
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We cache aggressively, at multiple levels, and manage the dependencies between caches. In the overwhelming amount of cases, we are serving straight out of SSD caches. The on-the-fly work only happens if the image does not already exist.