Chapter 7: Using Background Processing to Speed Up Page Load Times
by Bruno Skvorc
In the previous chapter, we've added on-demand image resizing. Images are resized on the first request and cached for later use. By doing this, we've added some overhead to the first load; the system has to render thumbnails on the fly and is "blocking" the first user's page render until image rendering is done.
The optimized approach would be to render thumbnails after a gallery is created. You may be thinking, "Okay, but we'll then block the user who is creating the gallery?" Not only would it be a bad user experience, but it also isn't a scalable solution. The user would get confused about long loading times or, even worse, encounter timeouts and/or errors ...
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