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Have you looked at PiCloud? It looks like exactly the base you want to build on. They run AWS instances, but charge by the millisecond. You can run one up just
by IanCal 13y ago
Have you looked at PiCloud? It looks like exactly the base you want to build on. They run AWS instances, but charge by the millisecond. You can run one up just for the 5-15 minutes it takes.
Or if you want to get fancier, try their queues [0], they've got an example of doing image processing to explain how it works. Essentially, you set up your processing pipeline attached to a queue. You then drop messages on the queue whenever you want to do work, and they spin up one or many machines (controllable by you) to process the data. Then after 20 seconds of nothing new appearing on the queue, they turn them all off.
They'll even give you 20 hours of compute time free, every month.
Edit - if you don't want to build it, drop me a message, I can do it.
[0] http://blog.picloud.com/2013/04/03/introducing-queues-creating-a-pipeline-in-the-cloud/ http://blog.picloud.com/2013/04/03/introducing-queues-creati...
- DenisM 13y agoI'll spend some more time on it, but right now it looks like another platform I need to learn, which I don't have time for. What I want is a service that takes this URL and returns a resized JPG: http://SimpleImageService.com/resize ?account=DenisM &source=http://s3.amazonaws.com/DenisMsPictures/Image1.TIFF &size=400x400 That's it. I'll drop this into my app and forget about it. Set the prices at your AWS cost + 25%, and send me the bill at the end of each month.
- georgemcbay 13y agoWhen I was working at Technicolor/Medinavi (after they acquired most of the chumby employees), I wrote basically this exact service (massively parallel with goroutines and with filesystem-based caching, and they were running it on an AWS instance) in about 100 lines of Go code using ImageMagick through CGO (because ImageMagick has a lot more image operation and resample filter options than the built-in go image/draw package). Sadly, I obviously can't just share the code because I don't own the copyright.
- madlag 13y agoThat's exactly what Stupeflix Tasks will do in a few weeks, along with video thumbnails strips, thumbnailing of videos at any point in time, video uploads, audio waveform, text to speech, video reverse etc. The beta doc is at https://stupeflix-tasks-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/versions/index.html https://stupeflix-tasks-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/versio... , feel free to give me some feedback on it ! And if you want to do way more than just transcode, but create completely your video from images / music / videos , you can use the video rendering service at http://developer.stupeflix.com/ http://developer.stupeflix.com/ . It will migrated to the Tasks api too. (Disclaimer : I am the CTO )
- IanCal 13y agoWell I need a side project at the moment :) I'll try and put something together and drop you a message.
- omfg 13y agoCloudinary does that. We used it for a bit but ultimately decided to roll our own. Their service worked great though. We've tried a bunch of options since hosting on Heroku makes large scale image processing a chore. Cloudinary was best of the bunch.
- ruckusing 13y agoCheck out imgix.com