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Would massive savings be achieved if an image sharing app like say, Instagram were to adopt it, considering a lot of user-uploaded travel photos of popular dest
by tjchear 7y ago
Would massive savings be achieved if an image sharing app like say, Instagram were to adopt it, considering a lot of user-uploaded travel photos of popular destinations look more or less the same?
- chickenpotpie 7y agoMy guess is that it would be much more expensive unless it's a frequently accessed image. CPU and GPU time is much more expensive than storage costs on any cloud provider.
- greenpizza13 7y agoWhere it might be very useful is for companies who distribute Cellular IOT devices where they pay for each byte uploaded. That could have a real impact on cost with the tradeoff being more work on-device (which can be optimized).
- chickenpotpie 7y agoAlso could be great for using up spare CPU/GPU cycles or having an AWS spot instance that triggers when pricing is low to compress images.
- kevinventullo 7y agoWouldn't it be cheaper if the image is infrequently accessed? I'm thinking in the extreme case where you have some 10-year-old photo that no one's looked at in 7 years. In that case the storage costs are everything because the marginal CPU cost is 0.
- chickenpotpie 7y agoIt depends if the decompression is done on the server or on the client. If the client is doing the decompressing it would be better to compress frequently accessed images because it would lower bandwidth costs. If the server does the decompressing it would be better for infrequently accessed images to save on CPU costs.
- ackbar03 7y agoThats sort of the conclusion I reached when I was looking at the stuff before. The economics of it don't quite work out yet