Scott and Wes talk about working with images, videos and big zips. How do you host them? Do you need a CDN? What about compression?!

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Show Notes

1:30

• Chit-chatting about GraphQL Testing

3:45

• What is a CDN? Why do you need one?
• How does the internet even work?

7:00

• Amazon S3 + Cloudfront
• CacheFly
• MaxCDN
• Cloudflare

11:30

• Talking about Image Formats
• WebP
• WebP CanIUse

16:00

• Losslesss VS Lossy
• Stripping image meta data like EXIF
• Image Optim App
• ImageMin
• Gulp ImageMin
• ImageMin Webpack
• ImageMin Plugins on npm

26:00

• How we use Cloudinary

29:00

• Hosting, Encoding and Compressing Videos
• Our Stacks Explained Syntax Podcast
• Vimeo Pro
• YouTube DL
• BrightCove
• Wista
• Sprout Video
• Cloudinary Video

41:00

• What is Cloudflare?
• Cloudflare Video is coming

46:30

• Web Torrent
• Apparently Spotify doesn't use P2P any longer

50:00

• Big Zips!
• How do we host large video downloads?
• Amazon S3 + Cloudfront
• Handbrake
• Backblaze B2

55:00

• Video Formats

59:00

• SVGO
• SVGOMG

Siiick Pixxxx

• Wes: Node Inspector Manager
• Scott: iShowUInstant

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