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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By : Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti
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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By: Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti

Overview of this book

Amazon Kinesis is a collection of secure, serverless, durable, and highly available purpose-built data streaming services. This data streaming service provides APIs and client SDKs that enable you to produce and consume data at scale. Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis begins with a quick overview of the core concepts of data streams, along with the essentials of the AWS Kinesis landscape. You'll then explore the requirements of the use case shown through the book to help you get started and cover the key pain points encountered in the data stream life cycle. As you advance, you'll get to grips with the architectural components of Kinesis, understand how they are configured to build data pipelines, and delve into the applications that connect to them for consumption and processing. You'll also build a Kinesis data pipeline from scratch and learn how to implement and apply practical solutions. Moving on, you'll learn how to configure Kinesis on a cloud platform. Finally, you’ll learn how other AWS services can be integrated into Kinesis. These services include Redshift, Dynamo Database, AWS S3, Elastic Search, and third-party applications such as Splunk. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to build and deploy your own Kinesis data pipelines with Kinesis Data Streams (KDS), Kinesis Data Firehose (KFH), Kinesis Video Streams (KVS), and Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA).
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
10
Section 3: Integrations

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)

Amazon KDS was launched in November 2013 and was the first service in the Amazon Kinesis umbrella of services. It is a fully managed, serverless platform for streaming data at any scale. It provides a highly durable, scalable, and elastic service for real-time data streaming that requires no provisioning of any infrastructure and enables users to get started with just a few clicks on the AWS console.

Amazon KDS falls into stage 3 of the 5 stages of enabling stream analytics described in Chapter 1, What Are Data Streams?. There are a number of core requirements of a stream storage platform. They include the following:

  • Data durability: Data, once sent to and received by a stream storage system, needs to be durably stored; there should be no data loss.
  • High parallelism: Provide high throughput and low latency in data retrieval or low overall propagation delay.
  • Read from any point in the stream: The ability to rewind to different points...