2 Using Azure: Azure Functions and Image Processing
This chapter covers
- Creating cloud infrastructure for an application
- Exploring and creating integrated logic work flows
- Interconnecting Azure services
- Exploring a serverless architecture
Now that you have an idea why Azure is so popular and why it is a great choice for computing infrastructure, let us dive into a practical example of using Azure to solve a real problem of storing images from emails and compressing them. We will keep it simple, but that doesn’t mean it will lack in power and application options.
Note:
This example can be done entirely with the free subscription tier in Azure. It is recommended to have a new Azure account for the free credits, hours and services to still be available.
Relating knowledge to examples and implementations that are as close to real world as possible is, in my humble opinion, the best way to learn a technical topic, and cloud computing with Azure is no exception. In this chapter we will build an application that follows just that principle.