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Founder of Gumlet.com here (we serve more than 2 billion images per day). Here are the reasons image processing on VPS is hard. - Reliability and uptime is a
by adityapatadia 2y ago
Founder of Gumlet.com here (we serve more than 2 billion images per day).
Here are the reasons image processing on VPS is hard.
- Reliability and uptime is a huge concern. If service goes down, images can show broken
- When you build it yourself, you pay for image processing, bandwidth AND developer time. image processing at multiple terabytes and half a million image processed is not trivial ( inputs can be crazy and output needs to be modified as per the requesting platform)
- Images form a big part of Google web vitals so slow image processing can hurt LCP score.
- Newer formats like AVIF and JXL are increasingly complex. They need way more processing power than plain old JPEG.
- shrubble 2y agoIs there really market demand for AVIF and JXL , and from what market segments?
- adityapatadia 2y agoAVIF and JXL can be upto 30% smaller than webp. E-commerce and news media companies have ton of images and 30% is a huge savings for them.