Photo Storage and Serving Infrastructure
Hackathon 22: Redesigning Pixelcloud

Hackathon 22: Redesigning Pixelcloud

2/15/2011 · Stefan Parker

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Redesigned the internal Pixelcloud tool from scratch, improving image uploads by over 20% and comments by over 40%. Migrated backend storage from NFS to DFS3 and restructured database queries for efficiency. Leveraged XHP for the frontend. Introduced new features like tag/user search, trending posts, and view counts to enhance designer feedback and content discovery.

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