[tedmiston]

> The problem with that is that the originally uploaded filename is lost. At least without storing it in a separate database.

Sure, but that's a tradeoff nearly every website accepts because they just need the image itself. If you do want to preserve the original filename, is there a reason for not just keeping it in a database?

[krullie]

I'd like to have these systems as decoupled as possible or at least have some meaningful information without a dependency on an external datastore. This might be just me being paranoid and overthinking it but after having to deal with a nasty monolith of an application for the last couple of years and finally convincing the rest that we need to change if we want to be able to expand I want to do it right.