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Re:How 500px serves up 500TB of high res photos by renaudg on Saturday May 16, 2015 @12:09AM (#9555031)
Is there a specific reason why you didn't use an off the shelf open source solution like Thumbor ( http://thumbor.org/ ) ?
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Re:How 500px serves up 500TB of high res photos by Renat on Saturday May 16, 2015 @09:19AM (#9555991)
performance is the main reason. Additionally we needed a solution to modify images on the fly (watermarking and attribution). That's why we decided to build our own service using go
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