Flickr and GraphicsMagick

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) has been using GraphicsMagick for its 
image processing for a number of years now.  Recently John Allspaw 
from Flickr gave a presentation ("Operational Efficiency Hacks", 
http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/8580) in 
which he described refinements to the Flickr architecture so that it 
could do more with less.  The presentation described changes to 
software versions, optimization options, and hardware upgrades, which 
allowed Flickr to achieve the same throughput using far fewer 
machines, far less space, and far less energy.

Read the presentation at
"http://www.kitchensoap.com/2009/04/03/slides-from-web20-expo-2009-and-somethin-else-interestin/".

You will find that GraphicsMagick (including the recent OpenMP 
updates) is featured rather prominently, as well as PHP updates, and 
updated hardware.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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