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# [Journey so far](https://nnamdisblog.hashnode.dev/journey-so-far?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Greetings esteemed reader(s)! Started my official journey as a software developer and i will be sharing my experiences, learning curves, ups and downs with you all on this blog. I joined a team of awesome developers with the best boss at the helm o...

Jun 10, 2021 · 2 min read · nnamdisblog.hashnode.dev  
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-   [#reactjs](https://hashnode.com/tag/reactjs)
-   [#programming-blogs](https://hashnode.com/tag/programming-blogs)
-   [#cloudinary](https://hashnode.com/tag/cloudinary)
-   [#aws-lambda](https://hashnode.com/tag/aws-lambda)

## Written by

[Okeke Nnamdi](https://hashnode.com/@Nemz144)

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[Ross Ragsdale](https://hashnode.com/@rozar)

[Jun 22, 2021](https://hashnode.com/posts/journey-so-far/60d20c85f0eac86cc6b00ef1/comment/60d2213cd81d4d6e9919affd)

> My boss suggested we use Cloudinary as an alternative to mySQL db. I found cloudinary to be pretty good and setting it up and integrating it to my micro-service was pretty easy.

FWIW: I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try resolving into Cloudinary directly from the GraphQL service. Turns out they have pretty restrictive rate-limiting on their Admin API, so we had to cache all the image data in a database anyway. 😅

[Okeke Nnamdi](https://hashnode.com/@Nemz144)

[Jun 22, 2021](https://hashnode.com/posts/journey-so-far/60d20c85f0eac86cc6b00ef1/comment/60d2213cd81d4d6e9919affd#reply-60d2223bd81d4d6e9919b01e)

lool that was what we were going to talk about later