Cloudinary DevJams

Netlify Build Plugins can add powerful capabilities to every build, thanks to an ever-growing community directory! Find out how Colby Fayock - Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary - created a Build Plugin that automatically optimizes and converts images on a Netlify-deployed site into modern formats with Cloudinary. Our hosts Becky and Sam explore many topics with Colby in this DevJams episode, diving into all of the code that makes this plugin possible.

Learn how Sean Morgan - full stack web developer and illustrator - created his work portfolio with technologies like Cloudinary, Heroku and CSS flexbox layouts. Sam and Becky dive into his techniques, showing how he updates the pages via JSON listings of assets in his Cloudinary account and applies contextual metadata in the process for search engine optimization purposes. If you are building out your first portfolio to showcase your work, or just giving it a needed update, this is a DevJams episode you won't want to miss.

Find out in this DevJams episode how Jen Brissman - recent graduate from Hackbright Academy (and the newest member of Cloudinary's Customer Education team!) - built a fullstack web application for storing information and media from entertainment industry auditions as her capstone project. We cover how she incorporated frontend languages such as JavaScript, Flask and Python in the backend, APIs from Cloudinary and Twilio, and all tied together with a PostgreSQL database.

Adding SVGs and other vector graphics to your website can be somewhat tricky! But Oliver Nassar, co-founder of Iconduck and Stencil, was able to overcome the challenges associated with these files for his projects. Find out how he did it in this in-depth DevJams episode, using Cloudinary's transformations and other development tools.

Creating automation and streamlining tasks can be such a powerful way for developers to make a business impact. Kyle Calica-St, who is a Product Support Engineer at Postman, was able to combine Cloudinary, Dropbox and Postman's toolset to create a unified screenshot repository for all of his company's teams - Documentation, Support, Marketing and more. Find out how he developed this process through his conversation with Sam and Becky at Cloudinary for this DevJams episode.

With AWS Amplify, you can easily and quickly build your next full stack application. And by combining Cloudinary’s uploading and delivery capabilities for rich media assets, such as images and videos, you can launch something highly optimized and scalable in a few clicks. Find out how to start your next project in this DevJams episode, where we learn from Alex Patterson - AWS Community Builder and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert (MDE).

Want to know how to dynamically develop Open Graph images and Twitter Cards for your JAMstack website? Check out this discussion between Ryan Filler and Cloudinary’s Customer Education team to see how it is possible, using Svelte, Sapper, Puppeteer and Netlify Functions.

Watch our hosts Sam Brace and Becky Peltz, as well as our special guest host Eric Portis, interview Chris Coyier about his recent development project. With Eleventy, Netlify, Puppeteer and Cloudinary's fetch capabilities, he was able to create a microsite for his famous CSS-Tricks.com site that showcases various coding fonts you can use. Find how he did it by watching this episode!

In our first-ever DevJams episode, our hosts Sam Brace and Becky Peltz interview Hannah Kofkin about her recent development project. With React, Rails, Cloudinary and a PostgreSQL database, she was able to develop a recipe app that allows the user to control videos through voice control. Find how she did it by watching!