Grid View in Magnific is Live. At last you can return to the dawn of time and find your first upscales from prehistory, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Favs + Filters coming soon.
Magnific has around 10M unique jobs. Each job can have several images (the original, the transformed, the reference, the thumbnail, etc). So we have: Around 30M unique images.
One of the developers of Magnific, Emilio, wants to share more technical details just in case you want to put your thumbnails in order.
Emilio’s partner, Javi Lopez, mentioned in X regarding this new Feature:
It seems easy to make a grid view (and of course is not rocket science), but it wasn’t that simple.
Explanation by Emilio, the absolute hacker, in case you’re interested:
Well, in the end, I had to download more than 60 TB, load them into memory and then re-upload them transformed.
And to avoid it taking a month to execute, I had to learn a new technology that was new to me and ended up having almost a thousand machines simultaneously doing the work. They knocked it out in 5 hours.
I know we could use dynamic transformation on demand with Akamai (for example) but I decided to do it this way for speed, I hope it’s worth it!
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