Posts by Akshay Ranganath

As a Python developer, I had a hard time building a streamlined UI that was ready to be used in demos or customer presentations. I found Streamlit (now part of Snowflake) and was ecstatic with its pure Python approach and simple interface to build a complex UI.  Streamlit…

Rise Above Research estimates that 1.6 trillion photos were taken in 2023, a 7.5% increase over 2022. Given the sheer volume of photos generated these days, indexing them by the person in the image has become humanly impossible. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to “train” and…

Geo-tagging, a versatile process applicable to images and videos, websites, text messages, and QR codes, involves adding geographic coordinates to media. This process usually centers on assigning latitude and longitude but can also encompass additional fields such as elevation, compass bearing, time stamps, and other contextual information. Why Use Geo-Tagging?…

Context Today, Users face multiple problems when arriving or simply using a website or app. One of these problems is quite significant, namely, network instability, causing the website or app to load slower. LQIP, Low-Quality Image Placeholder, and Lazy Loading are two…

Many of you who work with the Cloudinary platform have a media-associated workflow for moderation of images, dispatch of notifications with certain data or headers, implementation of activities through add-ons, etc. For most of those cases, Cloudinary would suggest that you take advantage of our webhook notifications and build…

tl;dr; Cloudinary conducted a workshop at React Summit 2021 to highlight the effect of media performance on websites by correlating it with Google’s Core Web Vitals and other performance measurements. Also presented were typical optimization techniques along with code samples. Here are the recording and the slides.

Many Cloudinary users desire a UI for tasks like creating text overlays for images, which they then embed on webpages or download for marketing campaigns. Generating such overlays with the Cloudinary Media Library UI involves a bit of a learning curve, especially if they require multiple fonts or text lines,…

Creating a collage for images makes sharing more fun, promising to preserve a wealth of memories. A number of tools are available that do the job very well. This post describes how to create a collage maker with Cloudinary. It took me a while to learn Cloudinary’s advanced implementation techniques,…

In February 2018, Cloudinary announced its support of content delivery through CDNs [content delivery networks] in China. With this offering, we announced the ability to support features like automatic format f_auto, DPR selection dpr_auto and authentication (using token and cookies). This post elaborates on the CDN options available to…

Using alternative text (alt text) in HTML has long been a common SEO best practice, which also works well for accessibility. This post shows you how to programmatically generate, save, and use alt text for your images on Cloudinary. Benefits of Alt Text for Images According to Moz, alt…

Oftentimes, developers and architects must supplement their project documents with diagrams, charts, sequence drawings, and the like. Instead of creating them with traditional software like Microsoft Visio, I searched for a more developer-friendly alternative and found a project with just the right tool, which I was able to integrate with…