RawPixel is a stock image provider, known for their high-quality images and wide user base. Having established a successful wholesale business licensing their images to well-known providers and becoming the leader in this area, they reached out to Fluxus to build their own image platform. The goals here were to fully control revenue, have access to their own customers, allow users to subscribe regularly, and be fully credited for their work.

Fluxus developed a platform using AWS serverless technology, which when combined with the development team’s agile work process, allowed for a flexible system flexibly delivered. This made it easy to plug in and test feature prototypes on the go. Using serverless microservices in combination with ElasticSearch, Fluxus developed a platform that could associate more than 17 terabytes of media with relevant metadata and tagging options. Serverless also helped in development of image processing and conversion through AWS Lambda. Using these services meant the project could go live much faster than if infrastructure and deployment was built completely from scratch, and much cheaper than hosting it on traditional servers would be.

Thanks to the quality of the technology, and our versatile developers, the platform was released in its initial iteration within 40 days, with more features continuously added. After our release of the platform, RawPixel once again made use of Fluxus’s services for added functionality for both users and creators, building both a Pinterest-style tagging system called “Topics” and an internal asset management system. Serverless once again came in handy to develop and extend the platform with these features. With the platform and all features being a success, RawPixel continues to keep Fluxus on retainer for future projects.

Fluxus offers on-demand serverless cloud development at competitive rates. Take off the pressure of AWS development and get a head start on your next project with a team of experienced cloud developers.