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To every thing – turn, turn, turn – there is a CDN… And so the song goes, well, more or less. There really are an abundance of content delivery networks (CDNs) out there; and a time and a place in which each of those CDN services could win the race…

JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs — oh my! Most web developers only learn which format to use through trial, error, and long experience, and not necessarily by fully understanding how these formats actually work. In this article, we’ll take a high-level look at each formats’ compression algorithms, in order to understand…

Update: In this post, we clarify that not all browsers natively support HLS or MPEG-DASH, and thus in order to deliver adaptive streaming video to all devices, you should deliver it using a video player that supports your chosen format. In December of 2017, Cloudinary released its own Video Player,…

“Responsive.” Where did that term come from, anyways? In his sea-changing essay, Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte explained: Recently, an emergent discipline called “responsive architecture” has begun asking how physical spaces can respond to the presence of people passing through them. Through a combination of embedded robotics and…

Note: this article was originally published in Smashing Magazine. Four years ago, Jason Grigsby asked a surprisingly difficult question: How do you pick responsive images breakpoints? A year later, he had an answer: ideally, we’d set responsive image performance budgets to achieve “sensible…

In economics, there is a concept referred to as “The Laffer Curve,” which illustrates how increases in government tax rates beyond a certain level will ultimately decrease tax revenue.

Video is an increasingly important component for websites and apps, as consumer demand for and consumption of video content is growing. It’s not only for wired devices, though. More and more, consumers are accessing video where they want it, when they want it, on whatever device that…

In the conclusion of this three-part interview the Jason Grigsby, we examine what the future may hold for images on the web. Previously: Part 1, Part 2. EP: I want to go back to the idea that we started with, that images are fundamentally…

This article originally appeared on Inc. Magazine and is reprinted with permission. Back in the day, responsive website design wasn’t the business imperative that it is now. In fact, just having a functioning website was all…