Assets processing alternative to Cloudinary

[asavin]

We are using Cloudinary at the moment for storing / transforming image assets. This is however is not ideal.

• Cloudinary interface for transforms is confusing and somewhat unreliable
• We are on a free tier at the moment, and will likely hit limits as soon as we're properly out in prod. Cloudinary pricing is very steep once you hit free limits.
• Would be nice to store all access under the same red-badger.com domain

We must have automatic assets optimization / resizing, since the admin user can upload extra large assets.

One option is to use a lambda made by F&M team:

https://github.com/redbadger/fm-lambda/blob/master/asset-processing/

At the moment it only supports image optimization, but we should be able to extend it to also resize / crop images.

Full pipeline would look like this: Filepicker => lambda => store result on S3 bucket => client fetches processed assets from S3.

Once the lambda is extended, we should totally open source it.

[lpil]

I like the idea of making an open source image hosting/resizing tool/service.

[lpil]

Probably because I enjoy making stuff :P

[asavin]

Function As A Service