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In my last post, we spoke about Advanced Search and Discovery. Even though data can be recognizable and descriptive, what counts is that we make good use of them for tracking and analysis. Therefore, metadata, which are data that summarize and describe other data, can be extremely helpful. Cloudinary’s…

Nowadays, users can and often upload various media files to social networks, websites, and messaging apps. Most of those media are images and videos, with a significant number being audio files. Subsequently, to create a thumbnail to depict an image, a site or app would crop and then resize…

In my last post, we spoke about Access Control. With Cloudinary’s digital asset management (DAM) solution, you can, with just a few keystrokes from your Cloudinary dashboard, perform advanced search on the media assets (images and videos) you’ve uploaded to the Media Library and retrieve the ones you…

Canvas animation is a feature of HTML5 that allows you to draw images, edit images, and erase them, on a drawing board which you set up with the <canvas> element. The canvas is a rectangle-like area on an HTML page. By default, the canvas has no border or content. You…

Angular is a popular open-source framework that offers a simplified process for building web applications. The framework is based on TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript—with additional features like static typing, interfaces, and classes—that promotes component-based development, ensuring that components are decoupled and easily reusable. Images are a critical factor of…

“Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you…” (Irving Berlin) If the Cloudinary CLI could sing, this could well be its song. Virtually anything you can do with the Cloudinary upload and admin APIs, you can do with the CLI…

Working from home is not a new concept. Many of us have or are remote team members and we’ve managed just fine, haven’t we? So why should this new normal with all of us working from home be any different? Well, just ask longtime remote worker Sally-from-Seattle, and chances are…

In my last post, we spoke about AI-Based Content Analysis. Now, given the importance of security and privacy, authentication is at the heart of virtually all software. Access control is the layer on top of authentication that determines who can access what. Why is access control necessary? Because within…

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…