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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

Choosing the correct platform

In this section, we will look at one of the most important decisions architects have to make – how to choose the most suitable platform for a use case. Here, we will understand when to choose between virtualization versus containerization and on-premise versus the cloud when considering various cloud data platforms.

When to choose virtualization versus containerization

Although both these technologies ensure that we can use resources to the best of our ability by provisioning virtual resources, each has its advantages based on the type of application.

Microservices is a variant of the service-oriented architecture where an application is perceived as a collection of loosely coupled services. Each service is fine-grained and lightweight. Microservices are best suited for container-based platforms. For example, a REST service can be easily deployed using containers. Since microservices consist of loosely coupled services, they should be easily...