Learning Center
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CDN
Master CDNs – discover simple answers to complicated questions.
- What Is Cache-Control
- What Is Cache Hit Rate
- What is Caching and How it Works
- Caching for Static and Dynamic Content
- Benefits of CDN
- How CDN Improves Speed?
- CDN Pricing
- Data Center In Cloud Computing
- DDoS Protection
- Global Server Load Balancing
- Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
- What are the main security risks to a CDN
- What is Origin Server?
- Reverse Proxy
- What Is RTT (Round Trip Time)
- What is Edge Server
- What is image CDN and how it works?
DNS
The fundamentals of DNS and networking.
File uploader
How to upload files like a pro. A guide to uploading all the file types.
Glossary
Glossary by Uploadcare – no fluff, all the mysterious acronyms explained.
- Application Delivery Controller
- Autobahn
- Backend Pool
- What is cloud hosting
- Failover Clustering
- Handshake
- Health Checks
- How APIs Work
- Image CDN
- Latency
- Layer 4, Layer 7
- Load Balancing
- Proxy
- Session Affinity
- Secure Sockets Layer
- Sticky Session
- Transmission Control Protocol
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- What is HTTP/1
- What is HTTP/2
- What is HTTP/3
- What is REST API
Guides
How to transform your files and images. A guide to transformations using uploadcare CDN.
- How to deliver the right image format every time?
- How to automatically enhance images?
- How to create automatic profile pictures?
- How to blur faces on an image?
- How to use images on HTML canvas?
- How to apply content-aware smart cropping?
- Browse previously uploaded files
- How to fill an area with the image?
- How to preset photographic filters?
- Serverless Image Gallery with CDN Delivery
- How to turn GIFs into videos on the fly with a single URL operation
- How to flip your images?
- How to make a monochrome version of the image?
- How to identify prominent colors on an image?
- Image Crop for Web and Mobile
- How to make images responsive with Uploadcare image transformations
- How to move your image processing operations to Uploadcare from Filestack and Cloudinary
- How to mirror your images?
- How to downscale your images proportionally?
- How to automatically identify objects in an image?
- How to automatically and manually rotate images?
- How to programmatically change the size of the object in the image?
- Screen recorder with JS
- How to sharpen your images?
- How to compress your images without losing quality?
- Serverless Video and Audio
- Watermarks, build cover for your images