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Where do you host all of your website’s assets – still on your own web servers? In modern websites, images alone contribute to more than 50% of a website’s load time, and recent studies show that even a 1 second delay in a page’s load speed can result in more…

Websites, blogs and web applications regularly embed video content from various video service providers such as YouTube and Vimeo. Videos are usually depicted using image thumbnails, tweaked to fit the graphics design of the website. When a video thumbnail is clicked, the actual video content starts playing. In this…

When we first started developing web apps with Ruby on Rails, some six years ago, we struggled with finding a good IDE. We settled for Eclipse with RadRails (still developing on PCs at that time…), but kept our eyes open for new and promising IDEs. At late 2007, a very…

As a website owner, you know the importance of having a robust web-based service. When a downtime may result in lost revenues, you strive to keep a highly available online solution. A major part of having a robust service is a good contingency plan, that ultimately depends on regular backups…

Several years ago, a good friend of mine showed me a cool graphic design concept for his new web-based startup company. It looked pretty great. What really caught my eye was the designer’s unique use of visitor profile photos. You see, when a visitor registered to the service and uploaded…

Most web sites enrich their graphics by embedding pictures and photos of their model entities – users, articles, movies, etc. The graphic design of such web sites assumes that all these entities have associated pictures, otherwise the result will not look as satisfactory as intended. The graphics designer will not…

If you heard of Cloudinary before, you probably already know how useful Cloudinary is with managing all your dynamically uploaded images, transforming these to their required dimensions, performing image optimization to ensure files are have the optimal quality and parameters, and delivering them through a fast CDN.

UPDATE (Jul 2018):   The information in this blog post was relevant and value at the time of publishing. However, multiple subdomains is no longer necessary now that Cloudinary delivers via HTTP/2 and it can actually degrade the performance of your site.

As web developers, we closely monitor the shifts in today’s modern web applications architecture stack. We find the client vs. server-side HTML rendering debate particularly interesting. In the past several years, we’ve witnessed the enormous rise in popularity of client-side JS/CoffeeScript MVC & MVVM solutions. From popular libraries such as…