Case Study: Imobiliare.ro achieves faster, safer image processing with imgproxy

Imobiliare.ro processes 4.5M uncached image requests per month with imgproxy

Imobiliare.ro, Romania's leading real estate platform, faced challenges with its previous image processing solution, ImageMagick, which was slow and had numerous reported vulnerabilities. They needed a faster, safer, and more performant solution to handle their vast collection of property photos, which required resizing and watermarking for different platforms while maintaining security for user-generated content. They also aimed to migrate their old on-premise image infrastructure to a new cloud-based system on AWS.

The company implemented imgproxy Pro, attracted by its use of the libvips library and its customized watermarks feature. They deployed imgproxy on AWS ECS containers with autoscaling rules to handle their load of approximately 4.5 million uncached requests per month. By using imgproxy, Imobiliare.ro achieved improved service availability without needing to extend their engineering resources, successfully supporting their growing user base and infrastructure costs.

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