Cloudinary DevJams

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. You'll learn more about ways to ...

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 how he breaks apart the Cloudinar...

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 to use this component with popula...

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 transformations for optimization and...

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 versatile capabilities to optimize and c...

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 files for placement on websites, mobile...

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 used by social media sites and microbr...

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 associated content delivery networks. ...

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 bandwidth for the site. Follow along with Cl...

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 through Igor’s Canva Publish Exte...

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 get a 100/100 on the "Cumulative Lay...

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 recently migrated code from one React...

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 production efforts. They’ll showed t...