[an4rchy]

Great name! Also, seems like a nifty, simple and useful service for quick prototyping.

This seems like a bandwidth heavy service. I am curious to hear how you are thinking about managing/scaling this.

[dmarby]

The service has actually been around since about 2014, currently, we serve about 400 million images a month, using some 6TB of bandwidth. It's pretty manageable since we use a CDN on top of the service, to cache already processed images.

Hoping to do a write-up of the architecture in the future, but the source and deployment setup is available at https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos if you're interested

[cbluth]

I've checked out the source, thanks. I'll say that a write up on the architecture would be very interesting, if you ever make it then please post it on HN.