Cloudinary Blog

Welcome to the Cloudinary Blog

By Cloudinary Team
Hi everyone, and welcome to Cloudinary!
 
We have a long history of developing web-based products. In fact, our main line of business is helping early stage web-based startups code their web applications. 
 
In recent years we’ve built substantial infrastructures to help us deliver higher quality web applications, quicker. One of these infrastructures has proven so helpful that we’ve decided to let everyone to enjoy it. We’ve named it “Cloudinary” and it is now open to the public.
 
What does it do?
 
Cloudinary is a SaaS that takes the hassle out of managing your websites images. 
 
Images from your graphic designer, images that your visitors upload, images you retrieve from the web to show on your website. Cloudinary takes care of your entire image management pipeline. Easily upload images to the cloud. Use smart image resizing, cropping and conversion without installing any complex software. Integrate Facebook or Twitter profile image extraction in a snap, in any dimension and style to match your website’s design. Get your images delivered from fast CDNs, and much more. Simply put - if it’s image related, let Cloudinary do it.
 
We definitely prefer writing code and adding new features than writing blog posts :) still, we have a lot we want to tell you about Cloudinary, about our ideas, about our plans, about the new and upcoming features. More than that - we want to hear your thoughts, your input, your unique image management requirements. So bookmark this page, add us to your favorite RSS reader, and come visit us. Drop us a line and tell us how Cloudinary can help you.
 
We hope to hear from you soon!
 

Recent Blog Posts

Generate Waveform Images from Audio with Cloudinary

This is a reposting of an article written by David Walsh. Check out his blog HERE!
I've been working a lot with visualizations lately, which is a far cry from your normal webpage element interaction coding; you need advanced geometry knowledge, render and performance knowledge, and much more. It's been a great learning experience but it can be challenging and isn't always an interest of all web developers. That's why we use apps and services specializing in complex tasks like Cloudinary: we need it done quickly and by a tool written by an expert.

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Make All Images on Your Website Responsive in 3 Easy Steps

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 the image size relatively rational to the device. The srcset and sizes options, which are your best hit are hard to implement. Cloudinary provides an easier way, which we will discuss in this article.

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The Future of Audio and Video on the Web

By Prosper Otemuyiwa
The Future of Audio and Video on the Web

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.

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Embed Images in Email Campaigns at Scale

By Sourav Kundu
Embed Images in Email Campaigns at Scale

tl;dr

Cloudinary is a powerful image hosting 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.

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

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Managing media files (processing, storage and manipulation) is one of the biggest challenges we encounter as practical developers. These challenges include:

A great service called Cloudinary can help us overcome many of these challenges. Together with Cloudinary, let's work on solutions to these challenges and hopefully have a simpler mental model towards media management.

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Build A Miniflix in 10 Minutes

By Prosper Otemuyiwa
Build A Miniflix in 10 Minutes

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 possible. Entrepreneurs need their MVPs like yesterday. With this in mind, what should developers do?

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