Building a Cost-Efficient Serverless Resume on Azure

Hi dear reader 👋, Welcome to my very first blog post on DEV, grab a cup of coffee, this one's worth it. Introduction I have been on a deliberate journey to move beyond certifications and into the craft of engineering in the cloud. While I hold a number of cloud certs and a strong foundational background of cloud concepts, I knew that certs alone wouldn't cut it. To truly master cloud engineering, I have to build, I have to understand how the pieces connect, where things break, and how to design systems that are not just functional, but resilient and reproducible. That search led me to the Cloud Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal (Azure Edition) , and it turned out to be exactly the right project at the right time. While going through this challenge, i did not build it to complete the checklist but to practice intentional engineering - to make architectural decisions consciously, understand the trade-offs behind them, and come out the other side with a system I could genuinely reason a