Grid

About Grid

Open-sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service. This is the story of how we are building Grid, the Guardian’s new image management system, working very closely with our editorial colleagues and using a modern technology stack. Oh, and it’s all Open Source. For about a year, a small dedicated team has been building the Guardian’s new image management service. To deliver it, the team relied on a pragmatic Agile approach, working directly with users to quickly develop a product that fits their needs and expectations. The new service is now integrated with our print workflow and used for almost half of the images published in our digital content. As the wider Editorial Tools teams worked on building a modern suite of editorial products, from content authoring and workflow management to editing of front and section pages, the need for a rich source of media became increasingly pressing.