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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By : Sinchan Banerjee
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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By: Sinchan Banerjee

Overview of this book

Java architectural patterns and tools help architects to build reliable, scalable, and secure data engineering solutions that collect, manipulate, and publish data. This book will help you make the most of the architecting data solutions available with clear and actionable advice from an expert. You’ll start with an overview of data architecture, exploring responsibilities of a Java data architect, and learning about various data formats, data storage, databases, and data application platforms as well as how to choose them. Next, you’ll understand how to architect a batch and real-time data processing pipeline. You’ll also get to grips with the various Java data processing patterns, before progressing to data security and governance. The later chapters will show you how to publish Data as a Service and how you can architect it. Finally, you’ll focus on how to evaluate and recommend an architecture by developing performance benchmarks, estimations, and various decision metrics. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully orchestrate data architecture solutions using Java and related technologies as well as to evaluate and present the most suitable solution to your clients.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Foundation of Data Systems
5
Section 2 – Building Data Processing Pipelines
11
Section 3 – Enabling Data as a Service
14
Section 4 – Choosing Suitable Data Architecture

Virtualization and containerization platforms

With the spread of information technology (IT) in all spheres of life, the dependency and reliability on IT infrastructure have increased manifold. Now, IT runs so many critical and real-time businesses. This means that there can be zero or negligible downtime for maintenance or failure. Also, rapid real-time demands have grown. For example, during the holiday season, there’s a huge amount of traffic on online shopping websites. So, now, IT needs to be highly available, elastic, flexible, and quick. These were the reasons that motivated the creation of virtual platforms such as virtualization and containerization. For example, Barclays, a multinational financial firm based in the UK, was facing a hard time from competitors due to their slow pace of innovation and project deliveries. One of its major roadblocks was the time it took to provision new servers. So, they decided to use Red Hat OpenShift to containerize their application...