Isn't this built on rasterio? I haven't used terracotta or rasterio, but your comment sounded like you compared them.
Maybe, but I think mapbox is doing a great job with rasterio, and so far we didn’t run into any unsolvable problems (although we got close sometimes). I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.
> I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.
How does rasterio simplify installation, when you still have to deal with gdal's C extension dependencies?
Whenever I see a GIS application, I'm always curious to see how they solve the gdal problem.
The best is always no GDAL, but that gets pretty hard to do quite quickly as GDAL contains some really great algorithms for dealing with non-trivial raster processing.