Schematic Overview of Sophora's Image Service (Image: subshell/CC BY)

The Sophora Image Service offers interfaces for the retrieval and generation of image variants. The image variants are stored in a separate S3 memory. Advantages include the optimization of memory requirement and generation effort, reduction of the pressure on the CPUs on the Sophora Delivery Servers and the easy addition of new image formats.

Schematic Overview of Sophora's Image Service - Details (Image: subshell/CC BY)

Hightlights - One-for-all

smooth integration with the Image Editor in Sophora's DeskClient and MobileClient
generates all required image variants, from XL to XS, from 16:9 to vertical variants
Formats: JPG, PNG and WebP, GIF (not animated when generated) und SVG (not generated)
image overlays
central generation of image variants relieves the CPU of the individual Sophora servers
central storage of the generated image variants in a separate S3 memory significantly reduces the total memory required
easy scaling, independent of other Sophora components
optimized APIs for retrieving and creating image variants
comfortable integration with the Sophora URL Library for automatic re-retrieval of changed images