1. Accelerating cloud app development using Azure Functions

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

  • Building a back-end web API using HTTP triggers
  • Persisting employee details using Azure Table storage output bindings
  • Saving profile picture paths to queues using queue output bindings
  • Storing images in Azure Blob Storage
  • Resizing an image using an ImageResizer trigger

Introduction

Every software application requires back-end components that are responsible for taking care of the business logic and storing data in some kind of storage, such as databases and filesystems. Each of these back-end components can be developed using different technologies. Azure serverless technology allows us to develop these back-end APIs using ...

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