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In the modern web, high-density displays (Retina, Super Retina, and 4K monitors) have become the standard. While these screens demand razor-sharp visuals, they’ve introduced a hidden “performance tax”. Many developers fall into the trap of serving the highest resolution asset to everyone to ensure quality, but the “one-size-fits-all” approach is…

Plain text links are a relic of the early web. In today’s social feeds and rich documentation, a naked URL is easy to ignore. You need a visual hook. This project transforms boring links into high-fidelity preview cards. Using the Cloudinary URL2PNG add-on, we’ll build a system that captures…

I’ve worked on enough campaigns to know that when a team produces one great video, the next step is creating a version for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, email, landing pages, etc. In content marketing, this is referred to as video repurposing or content recycling. On paper, reusing a video should…

Allowing users to upload files is the baseline expectation for social apps. Many backend teams do manual checks or trust that users are on their best behavior, but if a harmful file slips through and reaches production, chaos ensues: data loss, system damage, stolen accounts – all sorts of headaches…

When people hear “Cloudinary,” they often think of fast, optimized image and video delivery. However, in modern enterprise architectures, Cloudinary plays a much bigger role: It is the media backbone that connects product information management (PIM), content management systems (CMS), commerce engines, and workflow platforms. Enterprises need a clear, consistent…

User uploads help your platform grow, but they also bring risk. All it takes is a single inappropriate or off-brand imagery to damage trust within your community. You need a system that checks content the moment it enters your app. In this guide, you’ll build a simple, real-time moderation flow…

Adobe Workfront is a work management platform for enterprises to centralize, streamline, and automate project lifecycles, from creative review applications, time tracking, and more. Digital assets go through an approval process on Workfront and then are pushed to Cloudinary Assets for storage and delivery. In this post, I’ll show…

Anyone managing large sites with multiple listings, in travel, hospitality, and real estate, knows the importance of photo carousels or image galleries.  Take hotel listings as an example. For most guests, the gallery is the “real” homepage of any hotel. They might glance at the price and star rating, but…

Alt text is essential. Without it, screen readers can’t interpret images, leaving key content inaccessible to the estimated 43.3 million people who are blind and 295 million who have moderate to severe vision impairment, roughly 4% of the world’s population.  Accessibility is not just a moral imperative; it’s also…