Laya: efficient standards-based image API 💅

Laya is a high-performance server implementation of the IIIF Image API (version 3.0) with an emphasis on safety, performance, and spec-conformance.

Features

• IIIF Image API 3.0 compliant implementation
• Streaming architecture that efficiently handles large images
• Flexible storage with modular backends for local filesystems and S3 object storage

Status

Laya is currently in active development. Core functionality is working, including:

• JPEG2000 image decoding via Kakadu
• JPEG encoding via MozJPEG
• Multi-threaded processing pipeline
• Filesystem and S3 storage backends
• Tracing and metrics via OpenTelemetry

Users

Coming soon™

Developers

Requirements:

• Linux
• Rust 1.85 (the project builds on stable, but nightly is used for rustfmt).

Building:

During development: cargo check (or cargo build to produce binaries).

For an optimized build: cargo build --release.

Contributing:

Before committing:

cargo build
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -Dwarnings
cargo +nightly fmt --all

Licensing

Laya is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT.