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Bringing Women Who Code Together to Learn About Cloudinary

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For the last few years I’ve been active as a member of the Silicon Valley chapter of Women Who Code, a nonprofit that encourages women in tech careers. I’ve loved being a part of it, meeting new people, working with mentors and going to meet-ups where I can learn…

SEO-Friendly Images: Rank Higher on Google and Facebook

Topics Performance Optimization
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Facebook recently made an announcement that every person in digital marketing should pay attention to: The faster your website loads, the more likely it is to show up in Facebook’s news feeds. (News Feed FYI: Showing You Stories That Link to Faster Loading Webpages ) Reducing your page load…

How to Create Images for Responsive Web Design

Topics Guest Post, Responsive Images
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Images are crucial to website performance, but most still don’t implement responsive images. It’s not just about fitting an image on the screen, but also making the image size relatively rational to the device. The srcset and sizes options, which are your best hit are hard to implement. Cloudinary provides…

The Future of Audio and Video on the Web

Topics Video, Video API, Video Transcoding
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Web sites and platforms are becoming increasingly media-rich. Today, approximately 62 percent of internet traffic is made up of images, with audio and video constituting a growing percentage of the bytes. The web’s ubiquity is making it possible to distribute engaging media experiences to users around the world. And…

Embed Images in Email Campaigns at Scale

Topics GIF, Image Transformation, Responsive Images
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tl;dr Cloudinary is a powerful media management solution for email marketing campaigns of any size. With features such as advanced image optimization and on-the-fly image transformation, backed by a global CDN, Cloudinary provides the base for a seamless user experience in your email campaigns leading to increased conversion and performance.

Build the Back-End For Your Own Instagram-style App with Cloudinary

Topics API, Image Transformation, SDK
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Github Repo Managing media files (processing, storage and transformation) is one of the biggest challenges we encounter as practical developers. These challenges include: Media uploads Resource management (leads to heavy costing) Media storage Media transformations Poor delivery Administration A great service called Cloudinary can help us overcome many of…

Build A Miniflix in 10 Minutes

Topics File-upload, Guest Post, Video Transcoding
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Developers are constantly faced with challenges of building complex products every single day. And there are constraints on the time needed to build out the features of these products. Engineering and Product managers want to beat deadlines for projects daily. CEOs want to roll out new products as fast as…

Your Web Image is Unnecessarily Bloated

Topics Guest Post, Image Formats, Performance Optimization
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Images make up a majority of web content.But a lot of websites and applications that we browse aren’t always delivering the most optimal image format, size, quality and dimension.… As a developer, it seems inefficient to serve a 2000kb JPEG image when we could compress images to optimize…

Recap: Cloudinary Presents at the Google Developer Group Conference in Nigeria

Topics Vue
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Note from Cloudinary: Christian Nwamba, a frequent Cloudinary contributor, recently attended, and was a main speaker, at the Google Developer Group (GDG) Conference in Lagos, Nigeria. Christian led a session teaching more than 500 developers how to “Build Offline Apps for the Next Billion Users.” The stack he used…

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