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Canonical's Michi Henning explains in a lenghty and very interesting article how he and two other Ubuntu devs managed to implement a fast and scalable thumbnailing services for both Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Touch operating systems.
The need for a fast and scalable thumbnailing service for Canonical's desktop and mobile operating system came as a necessity that all applications required to display image thumbnails for multiple multimedia elements, including video and audio streams, as well as images. The thumbnail creation process is known to consume a lot of CPU resources, as well as bandwidth if the respective multimedia files are to be fetched over the network.
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