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Transforming images with Cloudinary is simple, right? You find the ones you want and add them to your URL, building them up and trying them out until they’re perfect. You can then save the transformations that you created as named transformations for reuse. That final step sounds straightforward, but up…

The Jamstack web-development architecture yields many benefits, including high performance and security. Plus, thanks to its APIs, which function as software as a service (SaaS), no back-end infrastructure is required for web applications. The rise of platforms as a service (a type of SAAS) has rewarded the front end…

Slideshows. Though sometimes boring, they are an essential cog in the corporate wheel, having served for decades as the medium for presentations. For a more lively display, consider combining various media types into a single video slideshow, which could serve as compelling, personalized, and engaging content for your users. Additionally,…

I can be quite passionate about image codecs. A “codec battle” is brewing, and I’m not the only one to have opinions about that. Obviously, as the chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc group in the JPEG Committee, I’m firmly in the camp of the codec I’ve been…

While AVIF is becoming more common among browser use, Cloudinary allows you to use it on your website to conserve image size by leveraging it for compatible browsers. One way to compare image codecs is to encode the same image in different formats at matched file sizes and then compare…

US consumers spent $211.5 billion during the second quarter of 2020 on e-commerce, up 31.8% quarter over quarter. Meanwhile, McKinsey found there were as many e-commerce deliveries made over the course of eight weeks in 2020 as there had been in the past decade. It’s no wonder retail…

Without necessarily knowing it, you may well be a Vorwerk customer: this great German family-owned company is behind the powerful Kobold vacuum cleaner, as well as a wide range of cosmetics, skin and body care products through its Jafra subsidiary.  But if you’ve ever been inspired by ‘Bake-Off’ or…

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…

Is your web page speed a pitfall or a profit driver? If you don’t stay on top of optimizing rich media on your website, chances are your web performance is actively (and financially) working against you. Over the past few years, there has been an 85% rise in online page…