Design and Evolution of Shopee Image Service: Architecture, Challenges, and Optimizations
Shopee’s unified Image Service consolidates upload, processing, and delivery into a single platform that overcomes legacy fragmentation and heterogeneous networks through resumable SDKs, adaptive ID schemes, link‑level and HTTP/3 transport optimizations, dynamic CDN scheduling, and device‑aware resizing, boosting upload success to 99.67 %, halving latency, cutting storage by 25 % and bandwidth by 56 % while markedly improving app performance.