How We Process 7,500 Product Images Daily Without Breaking the Pipeline
A behind-the-scenes look at the technical workflow that keeps eCommerce image editing consistent at scale — and what breaks when you try to fully automate it.
We process over 7,500 product images every single day.
When you're running at that volume, even a 2% error rate means 150 broken images going out to clients' Amazon listings, Shopify stores, and product catalogs. A 2% error rate at that volume is a business problem, not a rounding error.
This post is about what we learned building a pipeline that handles that volume reliably — the parts that automated well, the parts that didn't, and the specific technical decisions that made the difference.
