Developer swaps Selenium screenshot setup for a 3-line API call, cutting build time and image size

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A developer grew frustrated with a Selenium-based screenshot step in their CI pipeline, which bloated the Docker image to 800MB and took four minutes per build. They replaced the whole setup with a single HTTP request to a screenshot API, which dropped the step to about 12 seconds and shrank the image to 120MB. The new approach also yields more consistent renders across CI runners and removes ongoing browser-version maintenance. The tradeoffs include a small monthly cost and dependence on an external service, which they mitigated with a retry policy. They suggest the switch makes most sense for teams facing frequent Chrome version issues rather than those with low volume and stable setups.

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