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Episode 314: 314: Active Storage & Modern Images with Mark Hutter
Show notes
Mark is a lead engineer at Landing, a new platform for providing flexible living solutions for today’s renters. He is also the co-organizer of the Birmingham on Rails conference. He guested on the podcast to propose the simple question: can ActiveStorage be used for image serving in your modern web apps?
Links for this episode:
- Page Speed Insights | Google
- Lighthouse | Google
- Moving towards a faster web | Google
- See How Images Affect Your Page Speed | imgix
- Test a website's performance | Web Page Test
- GoogleChrome / lighthouse | Read the Docs!
- Birmingham on Rails 2020 - Validating and Processing the Content of a File with Active Storage by Claudio B.
- ActiveStorage Feature Request - Support for CDN (Cloudfront) #35926
- Mark's Personal Site
- Mark Hutter (@mrkhutter) | Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
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