Large Files - CDNs, Image Compression, Video Hosting, and Big Zips
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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
50:00
- Big Zips!
- How do we host large video downloads?
- Amazon S3 + Cloudfront
- Handbrake
- Backblaze B2
55:00
- Video Formats
59:00
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- Wes: Node Inspector Manager
- Scott: iShowUInstant
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. Welcome to Syntax. In this episode we're going to be talking all about media and large files |
| 0:16.6 | because that's something that you encounter all of the time on the web from video to images |
| 0:22.3 | to downloadable zip files all sorts of stuff we're going to be |
| 0:24.8 | talking about all things working with media and large files. So as always with me |
| 0:30.5 | is Wes Bus. How you doing man? Doing pretty good. We had family |
| 0:35.8 | days this weekend. I'm laughing because I forgot to hit record on my I |
| 0:39.6 | forgot to hit record on my end so we're doing this how you doing thing again |
| 0:44.1 | but I'm good we we just had a family day here in Ontario which is a holiday they just |
| 0:49.6 | made up a couple couple years ago and it overlapped with my birthday so I got a nice long weekend on my birthday I was pretty stoked about that |
| 0:57.1 | I joined the the club 30 now welcome welcome to the 30s |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | How you doing? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm doing pretty good. |
| 1:07.0 | Just doing a lot of coding. |
| 1:08.0 | We also had a holiday. |
| 1:09.0 | It was President's day yesterday. |
| 1:10.0 | I spent the whole day working on improving my test coverage for my site and in |
| 1:16.6 | turn I kind of came up with a really really slick process for doing just graph QL mocking of data just like really really one liner code and it's just really super slick and has made me just very, very excited to just finish this little testing update |
| 1:36.3 | I'm doing. I'm like getting really excited about working on my test, which is not something |
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