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MythBusters, Part 1: ‘Automated UI Tests Are Unstable’

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Even though most people agree that testing software UI is important, many believe that automated tests are slow and unstable. Consequently, many technology companies prefer manual testing. I’ll convince you otherwise in this post: even though automating UI tests and ensuring that they are fast and reliable is tough to…

Automating File Upload and Sharing

Topics Android, Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Django, File-upload, Javascript, jQuery, Lazy Loading, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Responsive Images, SDK, Vue
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As computer users, we constantly upload files, transferring them from one system to another over a network. You can perform uploads on a terminal, such as through the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) or Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, or web browsers. Generally, you upload files…

Leveraging a Modern DAM for Powerful Workflow Efficiencies

Topics Digital Asset Management
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At a Cloudinary-sponsored webinar held in July, Russ Barr, director of digital asset management (DAM) at Cloudinary; and Mark Katzin, VP of creative services at Straub Collaborative, elaborated on how to accelerate media workflow with modern DAM solutions. In particular, they delved into the latest DAM trends and integrations.

How to Automatically Remove Photo Backgrounds in Seconds With AI

Topics AI, Deep Learning
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These days, e-commerce websites are trending clean and sleek, almost always spotlighting high-quality product photos with a flat-white, solid-color, or transparent background. Many practical and well-validated reasons support this choice, making it clear that this is no passing fad. This graphic illustrates a few of them: How do website…

User-Generated Content, Part 1: The Basics

Topics Asset Management, E-commerce, Image Transformation, User-Generated Content, Video API
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User-generated content (UGC), aka user-created content (UCC), is material—images, videos, audio, text—that is posted by online audiences at will, often on social media. Such content frequently and indirectly promotes products and services for the organizations concerned, lending more credibility than conventional advertisements. This post, part 1 of a series, explains…

Integrating Cloudinary With Download Adapters for Android

Topics Android, Image Transformation, Mobile, Responsive
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Adding code to display an image in your application is one of the most common tasks for almost every application developer. However, when it comes to Android applications, there is no inbuilt support for any image related tasks, which could be a potential pain when Android developers need to handle…

Community Spotlight: Rebuild Black Business

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For this post, Cloudinary developer advocate and Rebuild Black Business volunteer, Domitrius Clark sat down with RBB founder Justin Samuels to discuss how the site came to be, its mission, and what the future might hold when developers for good come together for the cause. DC: Can you tell…

Simplotel Targets Global Hotel Industry Recovery With Help from Cloudinary

Topics Case Studies
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Hotels are working harder than ever to attract customers. While AirBnB has been turning up the competitive heat on the hospitality industry, many hotels have also found they have become over reliant on commission-hungry intermediaries such as Expedia and Booking.com. When the Covid-19 crisis hit, decimating hotel revenues worldwide, the…

Node.js File Upload to a Local Server Or to the Cloud

Topics Asset Management, File-upload, Node, Video
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Probably one of the best things to happen to JavaScript developers, Node.js empowers them to write and ship JavaScript on the back end. Thanks to Node.js, front-end developers can become full-stack developers in a snap. The procedures below describe how to Node.js file upload’s to your local server or…

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