PageGlimpse Platform Overview

Posted by Marcio Castilho on October 02, 2008

 

PageGlimpse Overview

 

We have been working hard in the last 2 years to delivery a very stable, fast and scalable infrastructure to queue, capture, cache and deliver thumbnails of websites to many different developers and website publishers. When we started this project in 2006, we simply didn’t want to create another website thumbnails service, but a very well designed cluster of different applications, webservices and technologies that would be able to scale efficiently as demand grows.

Since our team is formed by highly senior software engineers with background in C++, distributed applications, and high availability enterprise services, we sat down and developed an incredible platform.

We also chose the Amazon Web Services infrastructure to handle many moving parts of this system, from the automated queuing system, thumbnails storage on S3 and the cluster of webservers on Elastic Compute Cloud.

With all these technologies that we could leverage we were able to create a fantastic and super fast service that will provide you with a level of quality that is lacking in many of the other thumbnails service providers out there.

Make sure to sign up for our private Beta and we will send an invitation.