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All Things Media Experience and the Trends Shaping Today's Visual Economy.
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Demystifying Headless and Static Architecture with WordPress
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Join Sam Brace and Gary Ballabio from Cloudinary with Miriam Schwab, co-founder and head of Strattic for this MX Matters episode! They discuss details associated with static and headless architecture, particularly when using WordPress as your site's content management system. If you are exploring the concepts of decoupled architecture for your website - one of the hottest trends in the web development space today - and trying to decide if it will work for you and your organization, this is a talk you won't want to miss.
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Developing a Netlify Build Plugin to Optimize Web Media with Cloudinary
Netlify Build Plugins can add powerful capabilities to every build, thanks to an ever-growing community directory! Find out how Colby Fayock - Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary - created a Build Plugin that automatically optimizes and converts images on a Netlify-deployed site into modern formats with Cloudinary. Our hosts Becky and Sam explore many topics with Colby in this DevJams episode, diving into all of the code that makes this plugin possible.
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Gamifying Developer Education With TwilioQuest
Margaret Staples, staff developer educator at Twilio, introduces TwilioQuest - a free learning platform that takes developers through gamified adventures. Along with Tessa Mero of Cloudinary’s Developer Relations Team, Margaret elaborates on the platform and its successes, as well as its recent initiatives for extensions from the developer community.
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Creating a Work Portfolio with Heroku, Flexbox and Cloudinary
Learn how Sean Morgan - full stack web developer and illustrator - created his work portfolio with technologies like Cloudinary, Heroku and CSS flexbox layouts. Sam and Becky dive into his techniques, showing how he updates the pages via JSON listings of assets in his Cloudinary account and applies contextual metadata in the process for search engine optimization purposes. If you are building out your first portfolio to showcase your work, or just giving it a needed update, this is a DevJams episode you won't want to miss.
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Tracking Entertainment Auditions Fullstack with Python and Cloudinary
Find out in this DevJams episode how Jen Brissman - recent graduate from Hackbright Academy (and the newest member of Cloudinary's Customer Education team!) - built a fullstack web application for storing information and media from entertainment industry auditions as her capstone project. We cover how she incorporated frontend languages such as JavaScript, Flask and Python in the backend, APIs from Cloudinary and Twilio, and all tied together with a PostgreSQL database.
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Curating and Delivering Open-Source Icons With Cloudinary for Iconduck
Adding SVGs and other vector graphics to your website can be somewhat tricky! But Oliver Nassar, co-founder of Iconduck and Stencil, was able to overcome the challenges associated with these files for his projects. Find out how he did it in this in-depth DevJams episode, using Cloudinary's transformations and other development tools.
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Learn about next-gen video formats with Visionular’s Zoe Liu
Zoe Liu, who is the founder and President of Visionular, dives into the details of emerging video codecs and formats with Prajanma Singh, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloudinary. They discuss codec standards, such as AV1, H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VCC), Essential Video Coding (EVC), and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), and many details dealing with overall video compression.
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Integrating Cloudinary, Dropbox and Postman for Product Screenshots
Creating automation and streamlining tasks can be such a powerful way for developers to make a business impact. Kyle Calica-St, who is a Product Support Engineer at Postman, was able to combine Cloudinary, Dropbox and Postman's toolset to create a unified screenshot repository for all of his company's teams - Documentation, Support, Marketing and more. Find out how he developed this process through his conversation with Sam and Becky at Cloudinary for this DevJams episode.
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Learn More about XWP and How They Help Power the Modern Web
Join Gary Ballabio, Cloudinary's Vice President of Technology Partnerships, for this discussion about all things web development with Amit Sion, Chief Revenue Officer for XWP. They dive into topics dealing with website performance, e-commerce, user experience and many others in this MX Matters episode.
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Mediavine’s CEO on what brands must know about Core Web Vitals
Join this conversation between Eric Hochberger, who is the CEO of Mediavine, and Juli Greenwood, Cloudinary's Senior Director of Communications and Customer Marketing. They break down Google's recently released Core Web Vitals and explain how these metrics will likely affect brands' web page rankings on search engines. Juli and Eric also outline some ways to improve user experiences on websites and align to Core Web Vitals.
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Taking Cloudinary to the Command Line
In this MX Matters episode, Mickey Gordon - Senior Product Manager at Cloudinary - shares the company’s Command Line Interface (CLI) and the reasons it can benefit developers when trying to upload, manage and deliver their rich media assets in a lightweight way. We also talk with Erez Rokah, who is managing Netlify’s CLI, to discuss why they made an investment in building a command line tool for their business.
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Building Your Next Blog Fast With Cloudinary and AWS Amplify
With AWS Amplify, you can easily and quickly build your next full stack application. And by combining Cloudinary’s uploading and delivery capabilities for rich media assets, such as images and videos, you can launch something highly optimized and scalable in a few clicks. Find out how to start your next project in this DevJams episode, where we learn from Alex Patterson - AWS Community Builder and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert (MDE).
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Contentful discusses the power of content-first CX post-Covid
Watch host Gary Ballabio talk with our guest Rouven Weßling of Contentful about how they got started and how they're solving content needs for a rapidly changing web.
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Improving Asset Sharing with Collections
If you are looking for a better way to organize and share your assets, such as digital images, videos, and PDF documents, you’re in luck! Cloudinary actively enhanced a feature - Collections - throughout 2020 that lets you group these files together and share them internally with other Digital Asset Management (DAM) users. Additionally, you can share the Collections externally with stakeholders, such as agencies or the media. Liat Perlmutter - Senior Product Manager at Cloudinary - demonstrates the tool and all of its capabilities in this episode of MX Matters.
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Creating Social Sharing Images with Cloudinary and Svelte
Want to know how to dynamically develop Open Graph images and Twitter Cards for your JAMstack website? Check out this discussion between Ryan Filler and Cloudinary’s Customer Education team to see how it is possible, using Svelte, Sapper, Puppeteer and Netlify Functions.
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How Google’s Core Web Vitals Affect SEO and Visitor Traffic
Learn more about Google's Core Web Vitals, their recommended values, and other metrics Google has adopted or might embrace as benchmarks in this conversation with Tamas Piros - Google Developer Expert (GDE) specializing in web technologies and performance.
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New, User-Friendly SDK Versions From Cloudinary
Cloudinary is actively enhancing our software development kits (SDKs) for popular programming languages, such as PHP and JavaScript! We're also launching new SDKs for Kotlin, Flutter, React Native and more. Find out what these enhancements will provide in this episode of MX Matters, where we'll talk with Mickey Gordon - Lead Product Manager at Cloudinary - about the team's work in 2020 and plans for 2021.
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Integrations with Adobe Creative Cloud and Cloudinary
Join our host Sam Brace for this in-depth interview with Ariel Shiran - Senior Director of Product for Cloudinary! They discuss the major integrations from Cloudinary that were built for the Adobe Creative Cloud in 2020. If you are looking for ways to easily improve your creative teams' workflows with Cloudinary and programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator, this is an MX Matters episode you won't want to miss.
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AI-Driven Video Delivery Innovations from Cloudinary
In our first-ever MX Matters episode, our host Sam Brace interviews Yaron Reichert - Director of Product Management at Cloudinary - about the milestone feature releases and enhancements from his team in 2020. Watch as Yaron covers ways to automatically generate AI-driven video previews, use content- aware cropping capabilities to identify the must- keep video sections, as well as create dynamic video slideshows from images and videos in your Media Library.
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Fetching Local Production Images With Cloudinary for an Eleventy Site
Watch our hosts Sam Brace and Becky Peltz, as well as our special guest host Eric Portis, interview Chris Coyier about his recent development project. With Eleventy, Netlify, Puppeteer and Cloudinary's fetch capabilities, he was able to create a microsite for his famous CSS-Tricks.com site that showcases various coding fonts you can use. Find how he did it by watching this episode!
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Controlling Video from Cloudinary With Voice Commands
In our first-ever DevJams episode, our hosts Sam Brace and Becky Peltz interview Hannah Kofkin about her recent development project. With React, Rails, Cloudinary and a PostgreSQL database, she was able to develop a recipe app that allows the user to control videos through voice control. Find how she did it by watching!
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