Using SQS and S3 to decouple image resizing from uploading
January 18th, 2008
Message queues are a nice addition to any programming bag. They decouple the sender from the receiver. Let’s take the usual problem: what to do with images once they are received. We don’t want to show the full size image, so we need to scale & crop them.
In this article, I will show you how to use RightScale gems in this article to decouple the upload request from the actual resizing.
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