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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
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
10
Section 3: Integrations

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Launched in May 2019, Amazon MSK removed the difficult setup and management tasks for Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a popular open source, distributed, high-throughput, and low-latency streaming platform that is used by thousands of companies and is extremely popular. It is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Amazon MSK allows you to focus on building applications and simply use Apache Kafka for stream storage.

Let's dive deeper into Apache Kafka and Amazon MSK in the following sections.

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed system that is typically installed as a cluster on multiple machines, EC2 instances (in AWS), or containers. The core component of a cluster is the broker. Multiple brokers form a cluster working together to provide high availability and durability. The brokers depend on Apache ZooKeeper for cluster management and coordination, although...