A Logistics Tracking Reference Architecture

A shipment/stop/event schema everything maps into; status derived from events, never hand-set in three places. This is the difference between a portal and a rumor.

Driver devices buffer and sync; duplicate and out-of-order events are expected and idempotently absorbed — rural dead zones are a design input, not an excuse.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.