samvera/serverless-iiif

import Solution from '../components/Solution';

# About

## IIIF in the Cloud

- Access is bursty by nature
- Tile requests are at least an order of magnitude burstier
- Very hard to scale a server-based solution in a way that can handle the bursts without wasting capacity (and money)

## Solution

<Solution />

## Under the Hood

### libvips

“A demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library”

- Very fast and extremely lightweight
- Can perform more than 300 different image manipulation operations
- Supports a large number of image formats
- Most importantly (for our purposes), it supports multi-resolution images
  and tiling
- [Documentation ↗](https://libvips.github.io/libvips/)

### sharp

- Fast native Node.js wrapper for libvips
- Supports seeking and streaming of image data without making a local copy
- [Documentation ↗](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com)

## Contributors

- [Michael B. Klein](https://github.com/mbklein) - Northwestern University Libraries
- [Justin Gondron](https://github.com/jgondron)
- [Rob Kaufman](https://github.com/orangewolf) - Notch 8
- [Edward Silverton](https://github.com/edsilv) - Mnemoscene
- [Trey Pendragon](https://github.com/tpendragon) - Princeton University Libraries
- [Theia Wolfe](https://github.com/theiawolfe)

## License

Serverless IIIF is available under [the Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).