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> it will be cheaper to rewrite the software for the render pipeline. You don't even have to rewrite it, Linux imagemagick + OpenCV can handle the use cases of
by frugalmail 11y ago
> it will be cheaper to rewrite the software for the render pipeline.
You don't even have to rewrite it, Linux imagemagick + OpenCV can handle the use cases of cropping and sizing trivially. They can keep the rest of the code (device mappings and CDN related I guess) unless that was implemented using ObjectiveC (this is another thing that I would think is crazy)
- skuhn 11y agoCropping and sizing are just two (common) operations that imgix can perform. There's a lot of other stuff as well: http://www.imgix.com/docs/reference http://www.imgix.com/docs/reference Not to say that it's totally impossible to do these types of operations on ImageMagick, but it wouldn't work nearly as well as our current solution does. ImageMagick is a shockingly awful tool for use in server-land for a variety of reasons, some of which are handled better in GraphicsMagick. IM was the bane of my existence at more than one previous company.