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 Over the past few months, James Henstridge, Xavi Garcia Mena, and I have implemented a fast and scalable thumbnailing service for Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch. This post explains how we did it, and how we achieved our performance and reliability goals.
Introduction
On a phone as well as the desktop, applications need to display image thumbnails for various media, such as photos, songs, and videos. Creating thumbnails for such media is CPU-intensive and can be costly in bandwidth if images are retrieved over the network. In addition, different types of media require the use of different APIs that are non-trivial to learn. It makes sense to provide thumbnail creation as a platform API that hides this complexity from application developers and, to improve performance, to cache thumbnails on disk.
This article explains the requirements we had and how we implemented a thumbnailer service that is extremely fast and scalable, and robust in the face of power loss or crashes.
Requirements
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