CASE STUDY
How ADAC's connected vehicle platform was built from scratch, with an MVP delivered within a timeframe that looked impossible.
There are no published cost or performance figures for this project. What is on the record is the scope and the pace.
Since 2016 we have launched a range of connected vehicle solutions, from a complete scooter-sharing platform to event-based processing of IoT device data for both end-user apps and business intelligence. That is the experience ADAC's platform was built on.
ADAC came to us to build its connected vehicle platform from scratch within a timeframe that looked impossible. There was no existing platform to extend and no time to discover the architecture from first principles.
The schedule was only achievable because very little had to be invented. We reused what we already knew well: Azure, Terraform, stream processing, Lambda architectures and BI, plus the domain knowledge from earlier connected vehicle projects. Domain knowledge is usually underestimated, and it reduces schedule risk considerably.
An MVP delivered in record time: vehicle and device events processed as they arrive for the end-user apps, and the same data available for business intelligence, on infrastructure defined as code from the start.
The parts of this project a technical buyer usually asks about.
Azure was chosen because the team already knew it well, which made it possible to move quickly within the project's tight timeframe.
Infrastructure defined as code from the beginning, so environments could be stood up repeatedly at the pace the schedule demanded.
Device events are processed as they arrive for the end-user apps, and the same event data feeds batch processing for business intelligence.
Connected vehicle domain knowledge from earlier projects is what made an impossible timeframe achievable, more than any single technology choice.
From the connected vehicle projects this MVP was built on.
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