(9) Create an API resource

Communication between the website and the database

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You shouldn’t communicate with the CosmosDB directly from the website user counter as this would expose security vulnerabilities. Instead, create the code that performs the read/update action in the CosmosDB as an API. You call this API from the user counter and the API then connects with the CosmosDB and returns the data.

Goal 1: Get Azure function talking to the database

Create an Azure Function using Python
Setup Bindings between the function and the database
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-cosmosdb-v2?tabs=in-process%2Cfunctionsv2&pivots=programming-language-csharp#add-to-your-functions-app
Create python code that saves a value to the database
Setup output bindings so the updated value is returned from the function
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-http-webhook-output?tabs=in-process&pivots=programming-language-python

References

What exactly is an API?

AWS

Create an API resource to host the API function

Azure

Create the API resource to host the API function which will be an Azure App

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