Aviation & Defense
Case Study – Real-Time Aircraft Fleet Management
From an MVC monolith to a cloud-native, microservice-oriented architecture on Azure, for the real-time management of an aircraft fleet serving civil protection.
The Client
Software innovation in the aviation and defense sector
We partnered with a technology player active in the aviation and defense sector, engaged in developing software platforms for the operational management of aircraft fleets. Among the projects delivered, a platform for the Italian National Fire Corps that coordinates thousands of flight missions, rescue operations and maintenance activities across the country every year.
The Challenge
A monolithic application to make scalable and resilient
The existing platform, built as a monolithic ASP.NET MVC application, handled intervention requests, fleet assignment and real-time aircraft assignment. As operational volumes grew, the architecture showed its limits:
- Difficulty scaling individual features independently
- Slow, risky release cycles on a single codebase
- Limited resilience under request spikes or partial failures
- No structured DevOps flows for automated testing and deployment
The Solution
Porting to a cloud-native microservice architecture
Reengineering led the full porting of the platform to a cloud-native, microservice-oriented architecture on Microsoft Azure, contributing both to the internal software architecture design and, as a technology partner, to the design of the production infrastructure on Azure.
- Decomposition of the monolith into independent, scalable microservices
- Design of the internal software architecture and the cloud production infrastructure
- Implementation of DevOps flows on Azure DevOps for automated build, test and deployment
- Real-time management of intervention requests, fleet assignment and aircraft assignment
The Results
A platform coordinating thousands of missions every year
The platform is now operational in support of fleet management for the Italian National Fire Corps, coordinating a significant volume of activity across the country every year:
- Over 9,000 flight missions managed every year
- More than 5,000 rescue operations coordinated
- Over 1,000 maintenance procedures tracked
- More than 8,000 components monitored throughout their lifecycle
Benefits for the Client
Operational continuity and new prospects in the defense sector
Scalable, resilient architecture ready to support growing operational volumes
Consolidated DevOps flows, with faster and safer releases
Established collaboration with leading players in the aviation and defense sector
The trust built on this project led us, together with our partners, to be involved in the architectural design of a new platform for managing defense aircraft, now underway
