Photo uploads and scalability

[Ian Evans]

On 31/08/2012 2:01 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2012 21:40:16 Ian Evans wrote:
> [...]
>>   From a programming end I already know I'll queue any post-processing
>> and inform the reader when it's done so that process can be handled by
>> my local server or cloud instances etc.
>>
>
> TIP: You can avoid passing files over an upstream connection.
>
> Example:
>
>    location = /upload {
>        proxy_pass http://backend;
>        client_body_in_file_only  clean;
>        proxy_set_body $request_body_file;
>    }
>
> Your application should "mv" uploaded file somewhere, then register a task
> for further background processing, and return a response.

As photos are several megabytes, should I be looking into nginx's upload 
module?