Scalable Image Storage

Question

I\'m currently designing an architecture for a web-based application that should also provide some kind of image storage. Users will be able to upload photos as one of the k

Answer 1

I've been experimenting with some of the _update functionality available to CouchDB view servers in my Python view server.

One really cool thing I did was an update function for image uploads so that I could use PIL to create thumbnails and other related images and attach them to the document when they get pushed to CouchDB.

This might be useful if you need image manipulation and want to cut down on the amount of code and infrastructure you need to keep up.