Last week Google announced their new logo, and promised a drastic size reduction from their previous logo, of X46, from approximately 13.7KB to only 305 bytes. Seems that these promising numbers are misleading. A mix of the SVG and PNG image formats is involved. The actual logo images embedded in Google's web pages are much bigger and have plenty of room for optimization.
Last month I was invited to speak at Daho.am, Munich's developers conference. At this conference I talked about building and scaling a B2D service (Business to Developers). Specifically, how to build and scale such a service for developers in the bootstrapped way with zero external funding, which is the Cloudinary story.
I thought you might find this interesting and would appreciate your feedback :-)
This article explains how to dynamically create responsive images with Cloudinary's Javascript library, which automatically builds image manipulation URLs to match the size available for each image, for simple and automatic integration within responsive design layouts (e.g., Bootstrap responsive layouts).
Sample code included for Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js and more.
This case study describes how Answers.com manage their millions of images. From handling an incredible volume of image uploads in a fast and secure way, to storing the images and applying all sorts of graphic modifications before delivering them to the end-users in the most optimal and quick way.
This article explains how to control the space around the original image when cropping using automatic face detection. The Zoom image transformation parameter of Cloudinary can be added to dynamic image delivery URLs with on-the-fly cloud-based manipulation. Sample code included for Node.js, PHP, Ruby on Rails, jQuery .Net and other frameworks.
How to upload video clips to the cloud directly from the browser, server code or mobile apps, perform on-the-fly transcoding, manipulation and web optimization using CDN streaming delivery URLs.
This cloud-based video management solution joins Cloudinary's image management service.
Sample SDK integration code included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, jQuery, Node.js, .Net and other frameworks.
Cloudinary's new video management solution covered by The Next Web:
"Cloudinary’s video service provides a technical solution for all aspects of handling videos online, allowing developers to focus on their product rather than having to use resources to build and support in-house video operations."
Rails towards version 5.0, is probably still the best web development framework around. This article explains how image management in Rails is solved using Cloudinary's cloud-based solution. Ruby sample code included for image upload directly from the browser, and for embedding dynamically manipulated images with optimized delivery.
Automatically extract detailed face attributes from any uploaded image, and apply different image transformations accordingly. Create accurate face detection based and eyes detection based thumbnails. Dynamically add image overlays of glasses and masks. Code samples included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, .Net and other frameworks.
How-to combine multiple images on-the-fly as overlays, while manipulating each image overlay dynamically to match your graphic design. Sample code included for Rails, PHP, Node, Javascript and other web frameworks.
