Hello Dev Community! ๐Ÿ‘‹

It is officially Day 72 of my 100-day full-stack engineering streak! Today, I took a small creative detour from my marketplace flows to build an incredibly practical standalone backend microservice utility: A High-Performance Image Format Converter integrated with Automated File Lifecycle Garbage Collection via Node-Cron!

When dealing with user-driven media manipulation tools, leaving converted files permanently on the local disk is a recipe for a crashed server. Today, I solved that infrastructure problem by implementing scheduled automation hooks.

As shown in my UI dashboards across "Screenshot (166).jpg" and "Screenshot (167).jpg", the tool provides an instant web-to-buffer conversion flow:

1. Multi-Format Interception Engine (/convert)