I think this has been posted here before -- I always sorta thought if they had people with image processing skills instead of people with racking servers skills, they would approach this problem in a completely different way.
Racking and maintaining hundreds of mac pros over a fleet of commodity Linux servers (which they probably have already anyway) doesn't seems sustainable.
In fairness, imgix has a lot more people with imaging processing (and infrastructure engineering) experience than we have datacenter operations people who rack things.
We took up the challenge to rack unconventional server equipment not for its own sake, but because it enabled us to provide the service in what we felt was the most optimal way (given other constraints).
mattbillenstein|9 years ago
Racking and maintaining hundreds of mac pros over a fleet of commodity Linux servers (which they probably have already anyway) doesn't seems sustainable.
skuhn|9 years ago
We took up the challenge to rack unconventional server equipment not for its own sake, but because it enabled us to provide the service in what we felt was the most optimal way (given other constraints).