Cloudinary DevJams

In this episode of Cloudinary DevJams, we host Seb Meunier - Customer Success Manager at Intuiface ! He will share how their interactive signage platform uses Cloudinary to deliver images and videos across various projects, thanks to a .NET plugin he developed . Further demonstrating how the platforms interlink, Seb will walk through how their system can use many other well-known platforms. This i...

Cloudinary regularly hosts internal hackathons! These allow employees to stretch the boundaries of what's possible with our products. Hadar Bejerano , the head of the Solutions Engineering team, created one of the winning projects. With CloudyDesktop , users can sync a local folder to Cloudinary for automated uploads!  Find out how he developed this desktop application in this DevJams episode....

Tableau is one of the widely used data visualization and business intelligence tools! And adding dynamic images to charts and graphs is even easier, thanks to Cloudinary's transformations. Timothy Ngwena, lead consultant for Aimpoint Digital, created an eloquent solution with the two tools. In this DevJams episode, he walks through the steps he took for adding images in Tableau. You'll see...

Matt Kane, principal software engineer at Netlify, has developed the Unpic project. With it, you can automatically detect the content delivery network (CDN) for an image. On top of that, it uses the CDN’s URL API to resize and format images. It then generates the correct srcset and sizes attributes for the image. Join Matt for this Cloudinary DevJams episode to walk through Unpic. He will show how...

Are you looking for a simple and scalable way to launch a website? Does it need optimized image and video delivery? How about a flexible content management system? Look no further! Martin Jagodic , who is a senior web developer for PM , has created an excellent solution. It includes static site generator Hugo , as well as Decap CMS for content authoring. And the project uses Cloudinary's rich...

Don't miss out on this insightful DevJams episode that explores the intersection of cutting-edge web development and user experience, alongside one of Google's leading experts. We are thrilled to have Adam Argyle (Chrome CSS Developer Advocate at Google) join us for an in-depth discussion about his personal website, Nerdy.dev . Adam shares his expertise in leveraging Cloudinary's versa...

Blender is one of the most widely used software tools for modeling, animating, and rendering 3D computer graphics. And thanks to Anthony Datu and his new Blender add-on , it is now possible to easily export these files into Cloudinary ! Anthony’s work extends the 3D creation pipeline for all artists and associated organizations, allowing for Cloudinary-optimized images to be rendered from the file...

In this Cloudinary DevJams episode, we are joined by Ben Seymour - Director of Sales Engineering at Vercel! Ben has developed several interesting open-source projects using Vercel , Cloudinary , and Next.js . With these technologies, it is possible to create fast-loading, animated image galleries. Combined with Vercel’s Open Graph Image Generator , he also can easily create and update the images u...

In this Cloudinary DevJams episode, open-source software engineer John Reilly shares his plugin for the React-based optimized site generator Docusaurus . It uses Cloudinary for serving optimized images! Using Rehype and Markdown , the plugin fetches images from their original source on his blog’s server. Then it optimizes them by updating the URL structure to be served via Cloudinary and its assoc...

Join Grant Sander, Vice President of Engineering at Formidable , in this Cloudinary DevJams episode! You'll learn how Grant migrated images to Cloudinary and experienced significant enhancements for their website, such as next-generation image format delivery and support. Grant demonstrates the process and code that Formidable used to migrate images, resulting in an 86% reduction in image bandwidt...

With Canva being one of the hottest tools for creative and design projects, Cloudinary’s Igor Vorobeychik decided to build out a Canva-Cloudinary connector to help streamline work for those who use both platforms! This allows people to create their design in Canva, then publish it to Cloudinary for delivery onto websites, mobile apps and more. Cloudinary’s Customer Education team will be walking t...

Kent Dodds is one of the foremost experts on JavaScript, authoring helpful blog posts and courses on the widely used programming language. He recently shared some techniques to improve his own blog’s image loading experience, which happens to use Cloudinary for several aspects of it. Becky and Sam from Cloudinary’s Customer Education team talked with Kent, walking through the processes he took to...

In this Cloudinary DevJams podcast episode , we talk with Joel Turner – Senior Product Engineer at Sprinkr ! He demonstrates how he built a Gatsby plugin that uses Cloudinary to serve Instagram content on his blog. Our hosts and guest dive into all things open-source, as Joel is actively creating and sharing code on GitHub for Jamstack plugins and other projects he is authoring. Additionally, Joel...

Amy Dutton and James Quick host the popular Compressed.fm podcast, with amazing discussions on all things web development and design. To help deliver the episodes, they use Cloudinary’s APIs to customize their audio players and create promotional imagery in very innovative ways. Cloudinary’s Customer Education team sat down with Amy and James in this DevJams episode, walking through their podcast...

As a developer evangelist for Adobe, Raymond Camden is always looking for new ways to enhance his image delivery methods on his personal website and projects. While investigating Cloudinary, he developed some awesome techniques for handling responsive images and delivery workflows via Pipedream-managed webhooks that could really help you! Raymond joined Becky and Sam from Cloudinary’s Customer Edu...

Markdown is great for writing your next blog post, but including images in a web-friendly way is challenging. Thankfully, we can use information from Cloudinary’s APIs to modify our Markdown to display properly sized images! In this DevJams episode, we sit down with Brad Garropy, Developer Experience Engineer at Atlassian. He walks us through his open source project that uses libraries like Remark...

Daniel Duan, who is the head of engineering at Legitimate, has helped build out a truly innovative Web3 marketplace. The Drops by Legitimate project allows artists to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for their physical products, such as paintings, photography and even wearable items. As the artists’ product images are delivered via Cloudinary, Becky and Sam from Cloudinary’s Customer Education te...

Tapas Adhikary, who is a frequent contributor on FreeCodeCamp.com and other developer resources, recently created an excellent image gallery with Gatsby and Cloudinary! Becky and Sam from Cloudinary's Customer Education team sat down with Tapas to walk through his "Imaginary" project and better understand some of its components, such as its use of GraphQL and deployment via Netlify. If you are loo...

In classical music, knowing the people you have trained with has a lot of value! This is why Cori Lint, software engineer at Ovia Health, developed Cello Tree - a directory of cellists to show their relationships to each other. Becky and Jen on Cloudinary's Customer Education team sit down with Cori to learn more about the project and its underlying technologies, which include Python, D3.js and Cl...

Many developers make tons of open-source contributions, but keeping track of all of the various commits, pull requests and other actions can be challenging. Harshil Agrawal, who is a Developer Advocate for Contentful and formerly with n8n, created a project that solves this issue - GitHub Wrap. Using technology like n8n, Cloudflare and Cloudinary, he developed this excellent product that makes it...

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 DevJa...

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...

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 fro...

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.

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 throug...