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Web applications and web APIs are usually programmed to perform requests in a synchronous manner. A common web-based access flow will start with a requester accessing a remote service. The remote service in turn will process the request and quickly return the result.  But sometimes a web application will need…

We are often asked to share our customer stories with the rest of the Cloudinary community. Whether it’s for learning about others experiences managing images with Cloudinary, or just to reaffirm Cloudinary’s solution – we love to hear your stories and we’re happy to share them. Today, we wanted to…

Cloudinary’s image management service is used by thousands of world-wide websites and mobile apps. For many of our clients, Cloudinary has become a central, mission-critical component used for managing image uploads, transformations and delivery.   This is why we’ve built Cloudinary from the ground up to be a very robust…

Call us prejudice, but as a hardcore Linux guys, the name Microsoft always caused us to flinch a little. That was our initial reaction when we were approached by the Azure team. We have been integrating Cloudinary with many PaaS providers to make our platform as accessible as possible, and…

As Cloudinary continues to grow, the number of companies using Cloudinary to manage their images grows with us. Each company has its own unique product and utilizes Cloudinary in a different, fascinating way. In this post, we wanted to introduce you to several cool startup companies, and with them, the…

More and more developers are getting to know the power of the cloud. In today’s web application development world you can leverage the cloud to build large scale applications so quickly and easily that it’s simply mind-boggling that you get all of this while still keeping on a very reasonable…

Modifying an image opacity so the image is semi-transparent is a common requirement when implementing modern graphics design. Reducing image opacity allows background images to feel less dominant. Reducing opacity also allows layering of multiple images one on top of the other, an important step when adding watermarks, badges and…

In a previous post we’ve shown how you can easily manage your Ruby on Rails image uploads with CarrierWave and Cloudinary. Many of our Rails readers found this very useful, as it depicted a powerful image management solution that is trivial to integrate – use the popular…

This blog post is not like our regular techie oriented blog post, this blog post is about you guys, our users. Call it the holidays’ spirit, but lately we have been having a strong urge to say thanks. Thanks to our awesome users. The Rise of Cloudinary Cloudinary’s main way…