How to Build a Google Photos Clone in Java - Pilot

A pilot episode of a series building a Google Photos-like photo management service in Java. The tutorial covers setting up ImageMagick for thumbnail generation, calling command-line tools from Java using ProcessBuilder, walking a file tree to batch-convert images, filtering files by MIME type, and adding basic logging and timing. The episode ends with a teaser about deploying the Java file to a NAS and encountering an ImageMagick path issue to be resolved next episode.