We also did a similar thing, also on demand (and even the name is similar), but it has a few more features (instagram like effects & thumbnails of documents): http://thumbr.it/
If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet.
related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.
not nearly in the same way, people don't treat as if it's some amazing new thing, it's trivial and we treat it that way, backboneconf is a good laugh though
Backbone is like jquery or express , it solves a problem , and that's it , not some bloatware like other webclient frameworks. People like simple , minimal things they can build on top. It is pragmatism vs opinion , minimalism vs maximalism ,bauhaus versus dadaism , lego vs playmobil.
* Written in Ruby with Sinatra.
* Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ).
* Simple REST interface for submitting jobs.
* Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs.
* Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick.
* Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg.
* Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu
Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images.
Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.