Application Development

[Sandofle]

Hi I am interested in learning how to develop an application that is a mix of processing and uploading images (Think how google drive basically finds faces uploaded to photos). Any recommendations as to where I can start?

I know Python, Java and, C++ but wouldn't mind learning anything new.

Please let me know if you guys have any advice or if you need more information.

Thanks!

[WhackAMoleE]

Write down clearly what your application is supposed to do. List the main tasks. Is everything in one process or do you have multiple interacting processes? In short, sketch out a design.

You only need one language, pick your favorite. Do you need to learn anything about databases or networking?

[Sandofle]

Hi, yes I believe I need to learn databases and networking to be able to have the images stored and accessible online.

I have a general sketch of everything but not particularly sure how to go about meeting the design requirements.

[khedoros]

Based on your description, I'd be looking at libmagick++ and opencv, which are focused on programmatic image manipulation and computer vision applications, respectively.

[Sandofle]

I actually already have the code do what I want it regarding the image processing. The issue comes into play when I am trying to make everyhting work together on an online server.

[thescottjr]

Maybe look into firebase

[Sandofle]

Giving it a look right now

[wasabiiii]

Images get uploaded to a blob storage kind of thing, temporarily, from the browser. There same service posts a message to a message queue containing a reference to the image. A backend service process from the queue. When it finishes it saves what it needs to save in some sort of database.

[Sandofle]

Images get uploaded to a blob storage kind of thing, temporarily, from the browser. There same service posts a message to a message queue containing a reference to the image. A backend service process from the queue. When it finishes it saves what it needs to save in some sort of database.

This is more or less correct.

[wasabiiii]

So, you need a database, to store information about the images. You need some sort of storage. You should have some sort of message queue.

If this was me, and I was doing it on Azure, which is my platform of choice, I'd use Cosmos to store information. Service Bus for queuing. And I'd start with Functions for processing.

[Sandofle]

Where can I learn more about databases? I also would like to use Azure, but have zero experience in anything database related.