hey Gilles, On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Filippo, > > I've updated the changeset to support both cURL hits and rendering inside > the job. Sadly it seems like cURL hits also need to be a job, because I > tried sending a fire-and-forget HEAD request (with a Connection: Close > header) and that wasn't enough to trigger the thumbnail generation. Thus > the cURL request has to wait for completion, and a result is inside a job > in order to avoid the upload script hanging while the thumbs are being > generated. The upside is that the job that sends the cURL requests could be > rate-limited. > good to know! FWIW I think we are better off with the job anyways > BTW what sizes are you planning to start out with? > Mostly the sizes used by Media Viewer and probably the most common > thumbnail sizes found in articles as well. I'm open to suggestions > regarding how many different sizes should be pregenerated and which ones > would be reasonable to pick. I guess maybe it's best to start with a > minimal set and then expand it later if the resource usage is reasonable? > +1 to the minimal set, perhaps the top 2/3 most common resolutions for devices using MV? let us know when you plan to deploy it so we can keep an eye on swift. thanks! filippo
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