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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