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I also ran across imgix.com a few days ago which is a CDN that does on the fly image resizing on GPUs.

Are there some examples on how you would integrate something like that here?

It looks like the cool part of this is not serving or making the images, but in the JS to request a specific pre-made image. imgix seems to be more about making new images that fit a page or device exactly. You could probably use them together: zurb would request a specific image size and imgix would generate and serve the image on the fly. But imgix seems to have code for that already, and it's more fine-grained since you don't have to specify your sizes ahead of time.

The two go together like peanut butter and jelly. As an imgix customer, I can tell you that the service is a godsend. It looks like you would just pass your imgix URLs into the data-interchange tag.

Or for bonus points, fork Interchange and have it pipe every image request through Imgix.

I've requested access for the service a few times, any tips on getting in?

I just heard about this today... the pricing seems a little off kilter unless I'm understanding it incorrectly. How prohibitively expensive would this be for a SMB to implement?

The tech behind the service sounds fantastic, I'd love to be able to use them.

I don't have a lot of experience with imgix, but http://filepicker.io will resize your images on demand server side, and its all hosted in your S3 bucket/pretty reasonable pricing.

Example:

640x400 and formatted as a jpg

https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/rHA62UiiQyCZdEyw6rgw/conv...

200x200 and a png

https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/rHA62UiiQyCZdEyw6rgw/conv...

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