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0 pointsadityapatadia1y ago0 comments

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.

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shrubble1y ago· 1 in thread

Is there really market demand for AVIF and JXL , and from what market segments?

adityapatadiaOP1y ago

AVIF 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.

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