Managing and Serving Image

Table of content

• Why I choose Cloudinary?
  • Below are the list of add-ons offered by Cloudinary.
• Advantages through Cloudinary
• Final Note:

I use cloudinary to serve and manage my image upload instead of severing image through the same server.

Why I choose Cloudinary?

There are many image uploads manager out there such as imagekit, imgix, uploadcare, filestack etc. I selected cloudinary because it was easy to integration with my existing workflow. And offers add-ons, to better manage images, such as using AI to tag images automatically and other such stuff.

Below are the list of add-ons offered by Cloudinary.

Advantages through Cloudinary

• Removes EXIF data by default
• Support for WebP, AVIF and other image format
• Image transformation on the fly
• Lazy-loads images by default
• Serves image through CDN
• Automated image optimization
• Restricting image access

Final Note:

I didn't notice any performance difference because I serve my blog through CDN as well. But it has help me to better manage my images. And I am sure it was an overkill my blog.