Storefront Media Lifecycles: Keep Original Image Inputs for Reprocessing
An e-commerce catalog has one constraint that changes this decision: a product photo will probably outlive the thumbnail specification that happens to be current when the seller uploads it. TL;DR: retain the original as an immutable source, generate the derivatives required by today's storefront at upload time, and keep a repeatable reprocessing path for tomorrow's design. On-demand…
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