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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

Chapter 3: The SmartCity Bike-Sharing Service

Throughout the book, a fictional bike-sharing service, SwipeBike, will be used as an example to illuminate how Amazon Kinesis can be applied in a variety of different situations. Bike-sharing services provide city commuters with environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional personal vehicles and buses. Cities such as New York City, Paris, London, Hangzhou, and Mumbai have implemented successful bike-sharing programs with significant commuter adoption and reduced city traffic.

The use case is situated in the fictional municipality of SmartCity, USA. SmartCity wants to further improve on the success of its recently deployed bike-sharing program. Since its launch, it has reduced traffic, contributed to significant improvements in the city's air quality, and has increased the citizens' physical health.

SmartCity conducted a year-long feedback survey and determined that riders wanted a "more real-time and immersive...