From Hate Mail to 1 Million Likes
blog.neave.com
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I would be interested in seeing a more detailed post about your stack and what your backend looks like. Maybe I missed it, but how are you processing the photo filters before you upload to facebook? You made it seem like the facebook images did not really have to touch your server. Are you processing the images on the client side and them uploading them to facebook?
Keep up the work, I look forward to seeing updates on your blog.
All the effects are created live in the app itself, there's no server-side image processing done. It's true that the app simply uploads images straight to Facebook without touching my server (unlike Twitter, which is required due to the way their API works) - and thankfully it doesn't have to, or I doubt it would cope with the load. Facebook must have loads of servers purely for processing image uploads. My back end is simply Apache+PHP.
I hope to blog more about my experiences in the future too. Thanks for the feedback.