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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
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Section 3: Integrations

Technical requirements

There are a few things that you will need to set up and configure before we start exploring KDA. If you have already set these up in previous chapters, please skip ahead to the next section.

AWS account setup

You will need to get an AWS account to run the examples included in this chapter. If you do not have an account already, you can go to https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/ to create an account. AWS accounts offer a Free Tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free). The AWS Free Tier allows you to use many AWS services for free within specified usage limits. Some of the service examples in this chapter are outside the AWS Free Tier and incur some service usage charges.

AWS CDK

You will need an AWS Cloud Deployment Kit (CDK) to create cloud application resources required for the setup of the exercises we will perform in this chapter. You can install a CDK by executing the following on your command prompt:

npm install -g aws-cdk

For a detailed...