The solution
The Coolies data team decided to use Microsoft Azure to implement Coolies' analytics solution. Among other things, the Coolies team listed Azure's scalability, compliance, and regional availability in Coolies' regions (Australia and Japan) as the main factors in making this decision. The team also articulated the reasons why each of the chosen Azure services is fit for purpose, as we will see in the next few sections.
Coolies used the refined requirements and brainstorming ideas (from the previous sections) to come up with a design for the solution architecture. The Coolies data team has come up with the following architecture (as shown in Figure 4.1):
Figure 4.1: Coolies' solution architecture
Data flow
The design in Figure 4.1 shows the solution architecture and the data flow between the individual components. Here, we explain each of the workflow segments as marked (numbered) in the preceding diagram:
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