Too Long; Didn't Read
Whilst serverless is in no way a new <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a>, it is only recently whilst studying for my <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-532.aspx" target="_blank">532 Microsoft Exam</a> that I have truly come to enjoy the power of products such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. Whether it be for scalability, costs or ease of implementation; there is merit in taking the serverless approach with your cloud based solutions. This piece is not necessarily a fleshed out tutorial of how to work with Microsoft’s Azure Functions but more of an exploratory piece on just how easy it is to create a database backend <em>“API” </em>of sorts all from within the Azure Portal itself!