I've tried to come up with a good case study, which will allow us to implement a large number of Microsoft Azure features and services in a realistic way. I wanted to use something that will have long-running processes over distributed systems so that we could incorporate features from websites through Service Bus queues, worker processes, and mobile applications. I came up with an idea of an industrial bakery, which should be a concept that is easy to understand and doesn't need specialist domain knowledge as with many of the systems we work on in our daily jobs!
The Azure Bakery makes products such as cakes and pies and deals with large customers such as supermarkets and smaller bakeries that require additional stock (this justifies the supply business unit). To make the bakery more realistic, it's split into three distinct business domains:
Sales: This domain is responsible for selling products to customers
Production...