How Imgix processes 8 billion images daily with G4 VMs powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

Imgix migrated to Google Cloud's G4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to handle 8 billion daily image requests.

• •Achieved 50% latency reduction (100ms to 50ms) and 6x throughput increase without application code changes
• •Four-stage pipeline combines GCS cache ingestion, GPU-accelerated nvJPEG decoding, Vulkan compute shader transformations, and NVENC encoding
• •Hybrid orchestration uses Cloud Run, Compute Engine instance groups, and autoscaling based on queue metrics

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