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In the multi-device era, responsive design often just means cropping an image until it fits. We’ve all been there. You upload a stunning landscape hero image and it looks great on desktop. But when the layout shifts to a vertical mobile view (9:16) or a square card (1:1), standard CSS…

Today, writing documentation means writing for AI.  Your IDE, your LLMs, your internal tools… They all read our docs. So yes, we make sure our content is structured, accurate, and optimized for machine consumption. But at Cloudinary, we haven’t forgotten our main reader: you. You still come to our docs…

The wait is finally over! We’re honored and excited to pull back the curtain on a project that has been fueling our passion for months: the Cloudinary Creators Community (CCC).  At Cloudinary, we know that the leap from finishing a coding tutorial to landing your dream role can feel…

Job searching can be tough, and so is standing out among the competition. When putting together job applications, there’s always that question: How should I describe myself? Will potential employers care more about past experience or a list of skills? A digital portfolio answers that question in a way a…

Video moderation creates operational bottlenecks, especially as your platform scales. In this guide, you’ll build an agentic video governance pipeline using Next.js 16 and Cloudinary. Instead of manually reviewing every upload, you’ll delegate moderation to AI agents that automatically: Watch every video upon upload. Flag and block inappropriate content. Tag…

We’ve all done it: browsing the latest summer collection during a snowstorm, eyeing a heavy windbreaker staged in a bright, sunny studio while you’re in the middle of a torrential downpour… For global brands, this creates a contextual disconnect, when the environment in the image doesn’t match the user’s reality,…

Modern web development often feels like a trade-off between complex UI needs and performance. When we handle user-generated content, we rely on brittle client-side logic useEffect hooks and conditional CSS to manage different image orientations. This approach bloats the JavaScript bundle and triggers Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) as the browser…

GitHub Repository | Live Demo Imagine a web where every image is instantly understandable to everyone, including the 2.2 billion people globally with vision impairments. This is a massive engineering challenge. Developers often view writing descriptive alt text as a manual chore that slows down release cycles. This…

January can be a time when we make all the resolutions to do and be better in the shiny new year. We resolve to do more… more exercise, a more rigorous diet, even more mindfulness, doggone it! But what if we (and hear me out) instead thought about doing less?…