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title: "Comment by Ross Ragsdale on \"Journey so far\" | Hashnode"
description: "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"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/journey-so-far/60d20c85f0eac86cc6b00ef1/comment/60d2213cd81d4d6e9919affd"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/journey-so-far/60d20c85f0eac86cc6b00ef1)

Comment [Journey so far](https://hashnode.com/posts/journey-so-far/60d20c85f0eac86cc6b00ef1)

[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