Posts by Itai Lahan

For the sixth consecutive year, Cloudinary has been listed in the Forbes Cloud 100. Just like in previous years, this recognition holds immense significance for all of us and is a tremendous accomplishment. Inclusion on this prestigious list of the most valuable private cloud companies is entirely the result of…

This year’s Forbes Cloud 100 list has just been revealed and I’m very proud to see Cloudinary included once again.  Being named to this prestigious list of the most valuable private cloud companies in the world, alongside companies I have long admired, for the fifth time is a testament…

When we started our journey in 2012, we were looking to improve our lives as developers by making it easier for us to handle the arduous tasks of handling images and videos in our code. That initial line of developer code has evolved into a full suite of media experience…

This time of year always brings with it a heavy dose of reflection. We set big goals for ourselves in 2021 as we continued to navigate our post-pandemic reality—one that hangs on with each new variant. As Cloudinarians, we remained mindful of the effects the pandemic continued to have on…

Every year in early February, after closing our fiscal year, we discuss the year that was during our monthly All Hands meeting. This year we reflected on a year unlike any other. It was a year in which the unimaginable became our shared reality. Together, as a global collective, with…

In 2017, when Cloudinary first made the Forbes Cloud 100 as a ‘Rising Star,’ it was an incredibly proud moment for the company. In 2018 we graduated from Rising Star status to be acknowledged as part of the incredible Cloud 100, the top 100 SaaS companies in the world. Today…

Images take up over 60% of modern websites’ total bandwidth. In the case of cutting-edge, image-rich designs, such as those for social media like Pinterest, that number is, remarkably, over 85%. Bandwidth is a costly commodity that gobbles up most of the IT budget of high-traffic sites, easily surpassing hosting…

Last night I attended a very special event honoring companies named to the annual Forbes Cloud 100. It was an incredible night spent with the founders and leaders of many companies I’ve long admired. I’m grateful for every Cloudinarian and the work they do to support our customers, partners, and…

Cloudinary is passionate about its users. We built our cloud-based image management features around real-world pain points, and it’s gratifying to see our customers use those features to solve major business challenges. One example is Keep.com, an innovative online commerce startup, which the Huffington Post has called “the only…

One of the hardest optimization goals when showing images to your website (and mobile application’s) visitors, is to minimize the image file size while maintaining high enough display quality. Smaller image file sizes directly translate to faster load times, reduced bandwidth costs and improved user browsing experience. But small file…

We are often asked to share our customer stories with the rest of the Cloudinary community. Whether it’s for learning about others experiences managing images with Cloudinary, or just to reaffirm Cloudinary’s solution – we love to hear your stories and we’re happy to share them. Today, we wanted to…

More and more developers are getting to know the power of the cloud. In today’s web application development world you can leverage the cloud to build large scale applications so quickly and easily that it’s simply mind-boggling that you get all of this while still keeping on a very reasonable…

When we first started working on Cloudinary we had a very simple goal in mind – offer a complete alternative to a set of rudimentary, repetitive, universally common web dev tasks. Tasks related to a website’s image management needs. As a web developer, you surely found yourself spending considerable time…

*Update (2015): Before you can use a delivery URL such as the ones described in this post, you must first pre-generate the GIF with a call to the multi method of the upload API. The delivery URLs described in this blog post are used to display the pre-generated animated…

When we first started developing web apps with Ruby on Rails, some six years ago, we struggled with finding a good IDE. We settled for Eclipse with RadRails (still developing on PCs at that time…), but kept our eyes open for new and promising IDEs. At late 2007, a very…

Several years ago, a good friend of mine showed me a cool graphic design concept for his new web-based startup company. It looked pretty great. What really caught my eye was the designer’s unique use of visitor profile photos. You see, when a visitor registered to the service and uploaded…

As web developers, we closely monitor the shifts in today’s modern web applications architecture stack. We find the client vs. server-side HTML rendering debate particularly interesting. In the past several years, we’ve witnessed the enormous rise in popularity of client-side JS/CoffeeScript MVC & MVVM solutions. From popular libraries such as…