transformimgs VS ImgixSwift

Disclaimer: I'm a co founder of Pixboost Image CDN. I wrote this blog recently about why you might go with us: https://pixboost.com/blog/why-pixboost-is-the-best-image-cdn/. We are also open source, so you could host the API by yourself: https://github.com/Pixboost/transformimgs

We tried to combine all that and make it easy to use @pixboost. We also have open source version of our image API that you can easily host behind any CDN: https://github.com/Pixboost/transformimgs

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imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive, and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. The service consists of a top-tier image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix’s proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things. We are a diverse team committed to building an excellent work and engineering culture, people-focused management, and no shortage of exciting technical problems to dive into.

Here are our open roles:

- Frontend Engineer (https://imgix.com/careers#frontend-engineer)

There are services like imgix out there which are pretty cost effective and take a lot of the effort out of images. Aside from requesting a specific size and applying transforms in the URL parameters you can also use format=auto which will check the browser's user agent and deliver a compatible, optimized format. Super easy to setup over the top of an existing site too since they have a web folder option which means you can leverage an existing image host. Alternatively you can link it to an S3 bucket.