Serverless URL Shortener on Azure

Building an URL shortener is much easier now using the Serverless technologies in Azure. In this post, we will discuss about developing this solution. Update: My colleague (Christopher Maneu) pointed out that we could optimize the cost by using Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) for hosting the management console. I updated the design to use SWA and added another API to check what the target URL is for the specific short URL gets resolved without visiting the site. Read more