Why does processing 1,000 images crash most machines?
Here's what actually happens when you resize a single image:
→ 500KB JPEG download → 12MB uncompressed decode → 24MB temporary processing buffers → Peak usage: 48x the original file size
Scale this to thousands of images and… OOM 💥
Read how we solved the fundamental memory problem that's been breaking image processing pipelines:
https://www.daft.ai/blog/processing-300k-images-without-oom
The result? 300,000 images processed in 30 seconds with the same 5 lines of code that work locally.