Building a Serverless Machine Learning API using ML.NET and Azure Functions

With the release of ML.NET, a API that C# developers can use to infuse their applications with machine learning capability, I've been keen to combine my knowledge of Azure Functions with the API to build some wacky serverless machine learning applications that would allow me to enhance my GitHub profile and cater to all the buzzword enthusiasts out there! This post won't be a tutorial. I'm writing this more as a retrospective of the design decisions I took while building the application and the things I learnt about how different components work. Should you read this and decide to build upon it for your real world applications, hopefully you can apply what I've learnt in your projects or better yet, expand on the ideas and scenarios I was working with. I'll be focusing more on what I learnt about the ML.NET API itself rather than spending too much time about how Azure Functions work.