This is a tiny app designed to compress images for web requests. It's far from production ready and is mainly for my own learning!
The brief for this app is to sit alongside a Django webapp (to which these pesky users keep uploading massive images) and serve user-uploaded files which are compressed on the fly. Ideally this would be integrated with some sort of Django plugin, but that's beyond the scope of the project for now.
I wrote a blog post about the project if you'd like to learn more.
I've deployed this behind Nginx on a Linux server running Ubuntu with the following config.
To keep this Gopher running in the background we'll use systemd with the following config:
[Unit]
Description=gosquash
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=5s
ExecStart=/home/user/go/gosquash/main
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
At the following path: /lib/systemd/system/gosquash.service
And kick it off using: sudo service gosquash start
You can check the status using sudo service gosquash status
Under /etc/nginx/sites-available I modified the config to include:
# Gosquash product images
location /product-images {
proxy_pass http://localhost:9990;
}
Then reload Nginx: sudo nginx -s reload
I want to do the following:
- Write a fancy todo list
- Move config to command line args
- Figure out why routing doesn't work with the config above (right now it only works when routing to root
/) - Add a batch job for compressing a set of images all in one go
- Benchmark the mother
- Add proper logging to an output file