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Architecture for downloading large number of large images

I am running a website for a customer who has terrabytes worth of images. Each JPG image is high-res (20MB) and belongs to a hierarchy like this: Group A SubGroup 1 subsubgroup a ...
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Dynamic web application hitting database on front page load to fetch profile image

Folks, I am in middle of writing a web application (Python/Flask) where home page has user profile image in the navbar which is coming from a database (blob), I am wondering if this is a good practice....
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In a web application, should "private" user images be protected with authentication/authorization?

When creating a web application that will allow users to upload images and mark them as private, should those images be protected by authentication and authorization mechanisms against access by other ...
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Optimal method of storing image thumbnails

I'm working on an application with a database containing many recipes. The API is written in Django (with Django REST Framework) and frontend in React.Each recipe is assigned a high-quality image. In ...
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What is the purpose of storing multiple lower resolution versions of the same original image?

Sometimes in apps I look into the Resources and find files for, for example, a 256x256 version, a 128x128 version, a 64x64 version, AND a 32x32 version, of the same icon. When I see simple geometric ...
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What is a good approach to handle editing product images?

You have the following situation: You have an SQL database containing two tables product and product_images You would like the user to be able to add, remove, or move around existing images They can ...
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Project icons / images organization

I am asking a question about the overall architecture between different projects. Let's say I want to centralize all icons / images between different projects in a single repository. This means that ...
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How do I check programmatically if two photos show the same drawing? [closed]

Imagine a simple drawing of let's say a duck. And you have an photo of it in your database. Now a user takes a second photo of the same drawing of the duck. What approaches exist to check if both ...
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Store and Tag Millions of Images

I am building an application where I need to store millions of images and later tag them. The tags attributed to the images could change over time as the tagging system evolves. Images will then be ...
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How should I treat image licenses in my program?

In the program I'm making I have a pixtureBox (.NET) that is used to show related images. I found images after searching online, and some are CC BY-SA 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and some belong to the public ...
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Base64 decoded image file size

I know base64 encoded binary data is equal to 1.37 times the original data according to Wikipedia. What if you decode that string with php function base64_decode($encoded_string); and then make ...
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Using table record id as an image name

I have a table where each record has a corresponding image (say the table is users and the image is the profile image. I am saving the images in the file system. I am thinking of using the table ...
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Image resizing client side vs server side

When uploading a lot of images to a server, to minimize the space taken by the images, is it better to resize the images before sending to the server or upon receiving them? It seems to me that ...
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How are dynamic images programmed?

I have two friends that want to create a jewelry store, focused on customized jewels. The core feature is the jewelry designer, based on a jewel model. Here's an example of the sort of thing I am ...
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How to manage image uploads?

Earlier, when images were to be added to staging/production, they were committed to the git repository and our deploy script used to take care of uploading the images to CDN (S3 in our case). But as ...
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