"Initially, we were using dragonfly to generate thumbnails on the fly, and cache them on S3 once they had been generated. This worked well at low loads, but as our traffic increased we quickly began hitting timeout and memory issues. Another factor was that our product range broadened to include …

"When I joined the company three years ago, we were looking to move the online academic books and journal content into a new platform, which was being built with a micro-services-based architecture. One of the challenges we had early on, was dealing with the wide variety of media that is …