3 ms·

I wonder why they used an image platform specify and not just s3 or other data storage.

• CharlesW 2y ago
  The article notes that the image-centric EphemeraSearch uses image services like Cloudflare Images and Cloudinary to do more than just simple file serving, which the author and his partner would otherwise have to build. But the conclusion notes that Cloudflare Images is ultimately not worth the cost for their use case, and that "it’s likely that we will replace Cloudflare Images in the long run".
• bastawhiz 2y ago
  It does simplify a lot of things. - Opportunistically serve more efficient image formats when browsers support them without converting/storing - Cropping and resizing without needing to build your own compute to do it (no creating and storing thumbnails) - Watermarking on the fly (e.g., on cropped images) You could absolutely build it all yourself, but tying it all together with your CDN and handling user uploads safely and doing auth (so users can't, for instance, just remove a watermark) isn't very easy, and it's nice to have a managed service that just does the thing.