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Delivery Hero: How to Stop Worrying About Image Freshness and Reduce the Image Network Traffic

Original post How to Stop Worrying About Image Freshness and Reduce the Image Network Traffic

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Delivery Hero was burning through 9TB of image data daily. Their apps were sluggish, their network costs were astronomical, and users were waiting too long for images to load.

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