Monday, January 30, 2017

Image processing with Cloudinary

Your web application or mobile application displays images in different sizes, you need to do image transformations such as cropping, scaling and etc, all of that can't be done internally?


Then the answer is Cloudinry, it is a cloud SaaS provider for image processing. You can upload your images, videos and files and apply required image transformations on the fly through their API. The derived content can be streamed through CDN. It provides SDK for all major programming language platforms. You can create folders and manage your resources through their web interface.

Their free subscription is good enough for a decent mobile application with reasonable traffic per month. Other subscription options are for medium to large enterprises.

For more details on this visit cloudinary. API documentation is provided here.