Getting our hands dirty with a near real-time data streaming use case

The time has come to get more acquainted with a few data services. One of the beauties of the cloud is the possibility to ingest and analyze large amounts of data, which are typically involved in big data scenarios. However, big data services can also handle small amounts of data at a very affordable price. To give you a glimpse of what native Azure services can do for you, we will build a quick solution from scratch, and then we'll see it in action.

Here is the scenario:

We have radars located in different cities, and we want to have a real-time dashboard showing both vehicles going over the speed limit and vehicles observing the speed limit (or less).

To make your life easy, we created a small .NET Core console app that simulates the radars. You can download the app from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Azure-Cloud-Native-Architecture-Mapbook/blob/master/Chapter06/code/devicesimulator.zip.

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