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Packing larger files into Azure blobs

On November 4th 2019, Azure SDK team published[1] a release containing improved APIs for the blob storage manipulations. Finally, I got some time to try new features regarding existing use cases of dealing with larger files. Following is a step by step project setup for uploading/downloading large files using Azure blob containers.
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Killing "IF" softly

There is a ton of material out there about the negative effects of nested if-else statements. Most of the time the problem description is accompanied by the refactoring tips and tricks to make the code more readable, flat, compact, etc. With this article, we are going to explore a different approach to dealing with the conditional "if" operator. We'll try to eliminate the "if" statements from the code usage, yet keeping all the benefits of conditional branching.