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Introduction

Why?

Covesa needs:

• A neutral playground to investigate internals of such services. In the context of data-centric architectures for example.
• A neutral playground to investigate, illustrate and disseminate combining data services and the Covesa eco-system with other parts of the vehicle. To demonstrate how VSS data can be used with VISS for newcomers for example.
• Repeated use of shared terminology, patterns and tools leads to quicker understanding in discussions, shared costs in development and can lead to quicker outcomes.
  • Jump from 'what is the box' to 'how are we using the box'

Success Factors

1. Newcomers to Covesa technology use the playground to accelerate their understanding of how the technology can be used. That could be a looking at a simple instance of how a VSS data server is combined with a VSS data store and queried using VISS. It could also be a more complex instance that combines components to illustrate a longer specific end to end use case, e.g. mobile to vehicle connection.
2. Internal groups within Covesa naturally use the logical concepts and the playground implementation in combination with other components to develop and disseminate ideas. This especially applies to the Data Architecture and Infrastructure pillar.
3. Supporting materials such as patterns, diagrams, cookbooks etc are adopted as useful assets within and outside Covesa, which in turn helps socialisation.

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