Photo Gallery / DAM (React, Sharp, Boto3, PostgreSQL, Redis, FastAPI) overview

A digital asset management system for photographers and creative teams to upload, organize, transform, and distribute image assets at scale. FastAPI handles asset ingestion with background workers that use Sharp for on-the-fly image resizing, format conversion, and thumbnail generation. React powers the gallery interface with lazy-loaded grid views, lightbox previews, and bulk metadata editing. Boto3 manages cloud object storage with lifecycle policies for tiered storage costs. PostgreSQL stores asset metadata, tags, collections, and access permissions. Redis caches image transformation results and CDN invalidation queues. The tradeoff is storage cost management for high-resolution originals and the complexity of color profile preservation across format conversions.