zmsmith

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   by zmsmith 12y ago

   I work with Andrew at Yipit. As he mentioned in a comment below, we're using features of Elasticsearch that aren't (and probably shouldn't be) exposed by haystack, and some of the query building started to get a little messy.
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   by zmsmith 14y ago

   Looks like a nice service. We definitely would have considered it. Thumbor is very easy to administer though, and we already use/trust Cloudfront.
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   How Yipit Scales Thumbnailing With Thumbor and Cloudfront(tech.yipit.com)

   30 points by zmsmith 14y ago|9 comments
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   by zmsmith 14y ago

   Here's a pattern I've been guilty of: 1. Set up an alert at a conservative usage to make sure nothing like this can happen 2. See alert and know you have plenty of time to fix the issue 3. Get distracted 4. Disk space disaster We use AppFir
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   by zmsmith 16y ago

   times 12
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   by zmsmith 16y ago

   We _were_ using pinax.