You have been hired to consult with a startup that is developing software for self-driving vehicles. The company’s product uses machine learning to predict the trajectory of persons and vehicles. Currently, the software is being developed using 20 vehicles, all located in the same city. IoT data is sent from vehicles every 60 seconds to a MySQL database running on a Compute Engine instance using an n2-standard-8 machine type with 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory. The startup wants to review their architecture and make any necessary changes to support tens of thousands of self-driving vehicles, all transmitting IoT data every second. The vehicles will be located across North America and Europe. Approximately 4 KB of data is sent in each transmission. What changes to the architecture would you recommend?

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You have been hired to consult with a startup that is developing software for self-driving vehicles. The company’s product uses machine learning to predict the trajectory of persons and vehicles. Currently, the software is being developed using 20 vehicles, all located in the same city. IoT data is sent from vehicles every 60 seconds to a MySQL database running on a Compute Engine instance using an n2-standard-8 machine type with 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory. The startup wants to review their architecture and make any necessary changes to support tens of thousands of self-driving vehicles, all transmitting IoT data every second. The vehicles will be located across North America and Europe. Approximately 4 KB of data is sent in each transmission. What changes to the architecture would you recommend?