Laying the foundation

Cloud infrastructure is only as good as the applications and services deployed to it, so for this book, we will be building our sample architectures around a function use case for a fictional company called Söze Enterprises. Söze Enterprises was founded by a mysterious Turkish billionaire, Keyser Söze, who wants to take autonomous vehicles to the next level by building a platform that will allow both land and air vehicles – from any manufacturer – to coordinate their actions to improve safety and efficiency. Somehow, Keyser has already got Elon onboard, so it’s only a matter of time before the other EV vendors follow suit.

We have inherited a team from one of Söze Enterprises’ other divisions that has a strong core team of C# .NET developers, so we’ll be building version 1.0 of the platform using .NET technologies. The elusive CEO, Keyser, was seen hobnobbing with Jeff Bezos in Monaco over the weekend,...