A Precision Task Pipeline Built for Scale Behind the Scenes of Synology Photos

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The interface feels smooth and instant when teams can easily scroll through tens of thousands of images or share project photos with other departments. But behind that experience is a very complicated backend architecture that Synology built to be fast, scalable, and reliable. At Epis Technology, we help businesses set up and get the most out of Synology Photos so they can use these new features to their fullest in the real world.

Epis Technology makes sure that Synology Photos works at its best reliably, efficiently, and safely—whether it’s for managing creative assets, construction photos, engineering documents, or large media libraries across teams. Explore Synology Photos deployment by Epis Technology.

The Task Center is the main part of Synology Photos’ high-performance engine.

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You can think of the backend of Synology Photos as a very precise factory. The Task Center is the heart of the system. It is a powerful processing pipeline that handles thousands of operations at once.

Backups of photos on mobile devices
Making thumbnails and previews
Getting information from files
Calculating how similar photos are
Tagging by location
Recognizing faces and things
Changes to metadata

Every second, these tasks move through the system in organized, prioritized groups. Epis Technology helps companies set up their Synology environments so that they can handle these tasks on a large scale without any slowdowns, bottlenecks, or service interruptions.

Practice One: Asynchronous Processing and Priority Scheduling—How to Keep Your Interface Fast

Synology Photos is designed so that the user interface stays responsive no matter how much work is going on in the background. Epis Technology makes sure that deployments make the most of this design.

Asynchronous Tasks

Synology doesn’t wait for processing to finish when users do something, like upload photos or make albums. The system immediately responds with “task accepted,” which keeps the interface smooth and interactive.

Smart Priority Scheduling

Not every job is the same:

High-priority tasks, like making thumbnails, run right away so that photos show up quickly.
When system resources are available, lower-priority tasks like face recognition only run.
This makes sure that important tasks never get put off because of heavier background tasks.

How Epis Technology Makes This Better

Epis Technology adjusts NAS resources, makes workloads more efficient, and builds storage architectures that can handle a lot of media and high concurrency. This leads to:

Load times are faster
Easier browsing

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Teams that work with large image libraries will do better.

Practice Two: Granular Task Decomposition How to Safely Handle Extreme Operations

What happens when a business needs to delete a folder with millions of pictures in it or work with huge datasets? If these tasks aren’t done right, they can use up too much memory or cause processing to fail.

Synology uses micro Transactions, which are small, controlled groups of operations that make sure everything works well at scale.

Why Micro Transactions Are Important

A single big task, like deleting 7 million photos at once, would cause:

Running out of memory
Locks on databases for a long time
High risk of failure
No updates on progress in real time

Synology makes sure that:

Each step is safe and separate.
Failures only happen in small batches
The performance stays the same.
Users can see progress in real time in the interface.

How Epis Technology Actually Does This

Epis Technology helps clients:

Adjust the size of transactions based on how busy they are.
Make big media libraries work better
Keep data safe during big operations
Stop bottlenecks and too much disk activity

With Epis Technology’s experience in deployment and consulting, even the most difficult tasks go off without a hitch on enterprise Synology environments.

How UI Responsiveness and Backend Logic Work Together to Improve Things All the Time

Synology constantly profiles and improves core logic to get rid of bottlenecks. One big improvement, making serialization better for packaging internal tasks, made the UI respond 2.2 times faster when deleting groups of files.

How Epis Technology Makes the Most of These Gains

Epis Technology makes this better by:

Keeping an eye on performance in the real world
Changing how resources are used
Making background tasks work better
Making sure that responsiveness is always the same at scale

As your business grows, Epis Technology’s ongoing support makes sure that your Synology Photos environment stays fast.

Deep Platform Integration: A Big Boost to Performance

Synology Photos works very well with DSM (DiskStation Manager) and the Btrfs file system, which are two things that Epis Technology is very good at installing and optimizing.

1. DSM Change-Tracking Makes Restarts Faster

Instead of having to scan all the photos again after a restart, which used to take tens of minutes, Synology Photos now gets a clean list of changes straight from DSM’s built-in tracking service.

Epis Technology sets up these integrations so that teams can:

Few delays when restarting
Faster healing
Updates that don’t stop

2. Btrfs Reflink makes file versioning quick and easy.

Btrfs lets you create versions without copying full file data blocks, which saves a lot of space.

Epis Technology uses this in business settings by:

Making storage layouts that work best with Btrfs
Making sure that versioning workflows work well
Cutting down on disk space that isn’t needed
Making it easier to scale in the long term

Creative teams, engineering companies, and departments that use a lot of media all see benefits in terms of performance and storage right away.

A Culture of Reliability and Performance That Goes Beyond Epis Technology Services

Synology’s backend improvements, such as redesigning databases, speeding up indexing by 20 times, using less CPU, and deeply integrating DSM, show that they are always focused on speed and reliability.

Epis Technology builds on this culture by:

Creating Synology infrastructures that are just right for you
Setting up Synology Photos for big businesses
Making pipelines work better for media workflows with a lot of traffic
Setting up strong backup and data protection plans
Offering full support and ongoing performance tuning