# A Year Without a Byte

DevFeed: [A Year Without a Byte](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-year-without-a-byte-29044.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://code.flickr.net/2017/01/05/a-year-without-a-byte/>)

Author: Archie Russell

Published: 2017-01-05T01:47:56Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Flickr](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/flickr.md>)

Topics: [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

## AI overview

Flickr describes how it reduced storage costs and went through 2016 without needing new storage hardware. The article discusses storage economics, rising image sizes, cloud-storage pricing, and engineering and product approaches such as compression and storage-system threshold adjustments.

## Source excerpt

One of the largest cost drivers in running a service like Flickr is storage. We've described multiple techniques to get this cost down over the years: use of COS, creating sizes dynamically on GPUs and perceptual compression. These projects have ... Continue reading ->