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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

Discovering Amazon KDA

Why do we need analytics, and what can we do with KDA? KDA allows us to understand and analyze the data flowing through our data streams. Before we dive into KDA, we recommend you take a look at how Zynga is utilizing KDA. Please watch this video (it starts around 20 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvxlF3A-Res. You will learn how Zynga uses KDA to extract various metrics to run their business efficiently and offer an excellent customer experience that we want to replicate for our SmartCity's bicycle fleet.

"Zynga is a leading developer of the world's most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day."

– Zynga.

Given that KDA is a managed service, AWS provides a monthly uptime percentage of at least 99.9%. For us, this means we have the platform we can start working with right away. More importantly, if we determine that we no longer require KDA, we simply remove the application...