Breaking news from the kooaba engineering team: In the last couple of weeks we deployed a new release of our image recognition platform, which, among other benefits, is quite a bit faster than our previous release. This migration is now complete, which means the speedup is visible in all our products. In numbers: roundtrip time (measured including the trip from our office in Zurich, to the amazon cloud in Ireland) is now in average 2.5s instead of 3.5s before the release. (Of course this time refers to searching the complete database of tens of millions of items across multiple machines etc.)

This benefits all our products, including consumer services such as Paperboy as well as business products such as the API to our Technology Platform.

And while we are still enjoying the new speed, our engineering team is already working on the next release which should be even faster! Well done guys!