Options for serving movie posters

[audiodude]

Assuming we have a source for movie posters, there are a few ways we could handle serving them:

1. The probably "right" way would be to store them in S3, which we load them into during some load step. The database would contain the object ID of the S3 object (image) and we would generate a url like http://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mediabridge/1234-5678.png or something.
2. We could also store the movie posters on disk on the server, in like an img directory next to the out directory. Flask could serve these in response to a url like http://localhost:3000/api/movies/123/img. This is inefficient for Flask and should generally be avoided, but is fine for development. We'd want to set up like nginx for serving static images in production.
3. Same as above, but store the binary image data in the database as a BLOB. Then Flask responds to the same API img URL and reads the data from the database before sending it.

We could also "hotlink" the movie posters from another site like the movie database, but this is considered very rude and also means that our site could break if they ever change their URL format.

[JamesKohlsRepo]

Sky found The Movie Database (TMDB). I believe it's free, but only for non commercial uses, and if we credit them somewhere.
https://www.themoviedb.org/api-terms-of-use