For sure - but you should ask yourself if you need to routinely deal with that blob, or just process it on the way in? If your upload functionality generates th

For sure - but you should ask yourself if you need to routinely deal with that blob, or just process it on the way in? If your upload functionality generates thumbnails and resizes images properly, you can isolate file handling to that section of the code and the rest of your app can just deal with nice, simple URLs.