montrealrb presentation: cloudinary

Cloudinaryby Alain Pilon

THIS IS NOT ADVERTISEMENT!

Topics covered

What?

Why?

When?

How?

Cool stuff

Alternatives

What?

Cloud service

Smart image manipulation and management

Acts as:

Storage

Backup

CDN

Transformer

Why?

Image management sucks

Not a lot of choices (anyone uses something else than CarrierWave?)

Flexibility

You can’t predict the future

Speeds up your site & development

When?

As early as possible since you will have to move all your assets to Cloudinary

How?

Simple URL

Carrierwave

Attachaniary

http://res.cloudinary.com/hhfav761b/image/upload/group.jpg

Cool stuff?

Private images/versions

Sprite generation

Face detection => face blurring(!)

camera EXIF

Metadata (gps, etc...)

Colors

More cool stuff

Correct picture orientation (for mobile)

Manipulations (creative cropping, borders, watermarks, etc)

Create animated GIF

1 account => multiple sites

Good to know

Images are loaded async

give a size to the img elements

some jQuery plugins need tweaking

Alternatives

https://github.com/tobi/imagery (good luck)

Thank you!

Try Cloudinary: goo.gl/KUPmX