imgfast reaches production maturity with analytics partitioning, schema unification, and enterprise-grade reliability.
We hit 1.0! The app is actually ready for real-world use now.
This release is mostly about making sure things don’t break when you’re actually using it at scale. We fixed a bunch of stuff that worked fine in testing but caused problems in production, cleaned up the database schema, and made analytics actually usable.
Analytics that doesn’t explode the database
We added automatic data partitioning for analytics. Before this, all the analytics data lived in one giant table that got slower and slower over time. Now it’s split into monthly partitions that get created automatically.
What this means:
- Queries stay fast even with months of data
- Old data gets cleaned up automatically
- You can actually look at your dashboard without waiting forever
Fixed some annoying bugs
Server-Sent Events actually work now. The status stream was closing prematurely before, which meant you’d upload a large image and then… nothing. Just a loading spinner forever. That’s fixed.
Better error handling. When something breaks, the app doesn’t just die anymore. It logs the error and keeps running. Novel concept, we know.
Worker processes are more stable. They used to crash occasionally and we’d have to manually restart them. Now they handle errors properly and keep processing jobs.
Code is less of a mess
We separated business logic from UI code (shocking, right?), removed a bunch of technical debt, and added actual documentation. The codebase is now something we’re not embarrassed to look at.
Also improved TypeScript coverage so the compiler can actually catch bugs before they hit production.
Performance improvements
- Database queries are faster (added proper indexes)
- Workers use less memory
- Response times are noticeably quicker
- Overall system uses resources more efficiently
Production readiness stuff
Added all the boring-but-necessary production features:
- Health check endpoints so we know if the app is actually running
- Comprehensive logging (so we can figure out what broke)
- Error tracking that actually tells us what went wrong
- Metrics collection for monitoring performance
This release represents about 3 months of work making imgfast something we’d actually recommend people use. If you’ve been testing it out, thanks for putting up with the bugs. They should mostly be gone now.