Prefer to read instead of watch? Here you go! https://aaronfrancis.com/2025/a-cookieless-cache-friendly-image-proxy-in-laravel-inspired-by-cloudflare-9e95f7e0.

In this video I built a very basic version of Cloudflare's image proxy that we use on our various sites, like highperformancesqlite.com. It's a single controller in our Laravel application! 

Cloudflare Images: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/cloudflare-images/
Intervention: https://image.intervention.io/v3

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Learn how to recreate key features of Cloudflare Images in Laravel, including image resizing and compression. The guide covers setting up routes, transforming images, caching, and rate limiting, ensuring efficient image processing and delivery using Cloudflare as the CDN.

I built Cloudflare Images in PHP (to scale & compress images)