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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

Creating a stream consumer application

An Amazon Kinesis application is a data consumer that gets data from the stream and performs additional processing to the data records (data processing). Similar to producer applications, there are several options to help you get started creating a consumer. These options include REST APIs, SDKs, and agents that can help you create a stream consumer for your application.

Amazon Kinesis application options include the following:

  • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
  • AWS Lambda
  • The Amazon Kinesis API
  • The Amazon KCL
  • Third-party connectors/agents
  • AWS Mobile SDKs
  • Open source data process technologies, such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink

As shown in the following diagram, the Amazon Kinesis REST API, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis Firehose are a few of the many options for data ingestion:

Figure 4.10 – There are several Amazon Kinesis application SDKs...