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According to Reddit's source code they're using a provider called Imgix - https://www.imgix.com/ https://www.imgix.com/ - who I assume use S3.
by vertex-four 10y ago
According to Reddit's source code they're using a provider called Imgix - https://www.imgix.com/ https://www.imgix.com/ - who I assume use S3.
- HomebrewCC 10y agoCame across an incredible photo series of their dataserver. http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-internet http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-int...
- Xiol 10y ago> Apple’s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons. imgix has written tools which allow us to leverage these strengths with our service, using OS X for image operations where it provides superior quality and performance. What advantages? If you're running these as headless servers, then what advantages does OSX possibly provide over cheaper, more powerful Linux boxes using e.g. ImageMagick (ok, ok, not having massive remote code execution vulnerabilities is one of them).
- pjc50 10y agoDoes ImageMagick have access to GPU hardware acceleration?
- tetromino_ 10y agoOf course: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/opencl.php http://www.imagemagick.org/script/opencl.php
- wille92 10y agoSame thing jumped out at me--having racks of mac mini's seems like a waste
- coolspot 10y agoCrazy.
- Fenntrek 10y agoWho in turn look like they're using fastly for their cdn judging by them sharing the exact same pops. (Guessing they use the fastly private cdn or have some sort of deal with them considering the imgix branded cages on their blog). https://docs.imgix.com/guides/cdn-guidelines https://docs.imgix.com/guides/cdn-guidelines https://www.fastly.com/network-map https://www.fastly.com/network-map