Mike Brittain tells us how Etsy resized over 135 million images on their production servers using GraphicsMagick, Ganglia, Perl, and plenty of planning: here is his fascinating lessons-learned overview, an object lesson in batch processing, and planning beforehand! How can you not be interested in a project that runs to managing 100 million of anything?! Actually this reads like an account of the geeks basically saved this company, because you have to wonder what the effect upon Etsy would have been if their efforts were not successful. We are fortunate that they are choosing to share the process they used, go take a look.
How To Resize 135 Million Photos Without Losing Your Job
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