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Thumbd, An Image Thumbnailing Service Built on Node.js, SQS, and S3

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Since we are all plugging our competing projects, here's mine: https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie

* Written in Ruby with Sinatra.

* Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ).

* Simple REST interface for submitting jobs.

* Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs.

* Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick.

* Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg.

* Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu

Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images.

Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.

We just built a similar node.js tool which resizes images on demand: http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr

It's funny how concurrent ideas work. I just built a very similar tool in the last few days for our startup.

concurrent, or trivial ?

We also did a similar thing, also on demand (and even the name is similar), but it has a few more features (instagram like effects & thumbnails of documents): http://thumbr.it/

If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet.

related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.

need to prefix it with backbone- for the extra hype-factor

express is pretty high on the hype scale meter too, just sayin...

Is it? I thought it was basically standard/expected for serving to a browser from node.

not nearly in the same way, people don't treat as if it's some amazing new thing, it's trivial and we treat it that way, backboneconf is a good laugh though

Backbone is like jquery or express , it solves a problem , and that's it , not some bloatware like other webclient frameworks. People like simple , minimal things they can build on top. It is pragmatism vs opinion , minimalism vs maximalism ,bauhaus versus dadaism , lego vs playmobil.

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