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Thumbd, An Image Thumbnailing Service Built on Node.js, SQS, and S3

41 points by BenjaminCoe 14y ago

chrisohara 14y ago
We just built a similar node.js tool which resizes images on demand: http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr
- geuis 14y ago
  It's funny how concurrent ideas work. I just built a very similar tool in the last few days for our startup.
  - Unregistered 14y ago
    concurrent, or trivial ?
- e98cuenc 14y ago
  We also did a similar thing, also on demand (and even the name is similar), but it has a few more features (instagram like effects & thumbnails of documents): http://thumbr.it/ http://thumbr.it/
tjholowaychuk 14y ago
need to prefix it with backbone- for the extra hype-factor
- camus 14y ago
  express is pretty high on the hype scale meter too, just sayin...
  - mwill 14y ago
    Is it? I thought it was basically standard/expected for serving to a browser from node.
  - tjholowaychuk 14y ago
    not nearly in the same way, people don't treat as if it's some amazing new thing, it's trivial and we treat it that way, backboneconf is a good laugh though
    - camus 14y ago
      Backbone is like jquery or express , it solves a problem , and that's it , not some bloatware like other webclient frameworks. People like simple , minimal things they can build on top. It is pragmatism vs opinion , minimalism vs maximalism ,bauhaus versus dadaism , lego vs playmobil.
lobster_johnson 14y ago
Since we are all plugging our competing projects, here's mine: https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie * Written in Ruby with Sinatra. * Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ). * Simple REST interface for submitting jobs. * Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs. * Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick. * Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg. * Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images. Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.
pknight 14y ago
If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet. related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.

41 points by BenjaminCoe 14y ago

We just built a similar node.js tool which resizes images on demand: http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr

geuis 14y ago
It's funny how concurrent ideas work. I just built a very similar tool in the last few days for our startup.
- Unregistered 14y ago
  concurrent, or trivial ?
e98cuenc 14y ago
We also did a similar thing, also on demand (and even the name is similar), but it has a few more features (instagram like effects & thumbnails of documents): http://thumbr.it/ http://thumbr.it/

tjholowaychuk 14y ago

need to prefix it with backbone- for the extra hype-factor

camus 14y ago
express is pretty high on the hype scale meter too, just sayin...
- mwill 14y ago
  Is it? I thought it was basically standard/expected for serving to a browser from node.
- tjholowaychuk 14y ago
  not nearly in the same way, people don't treat as if it's some amazing new thing, it's trivial and we treat it that way, backboneconf is a good laugh though
  - camus 14y ago
    Backbone is like jquery or express , it solves a problem , and that's it , not some bloatware like other webclient frameworks. People like simple , minimal things they can build on top. It is pragmatism vs opinion , minimalism vs maximalism ,bauhaus versus dadaism , lego vs playmobil.

lobster_johnson 14y ago

Since we are all plugging our competing projects, here's mine: https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie * Written in Ruby with Sinatra. * Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ). * Simple REST interface for submitting jobs. * Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs. * Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick. * Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg. * Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images. Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.

pknight 14y ago

If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet. related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.