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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

Understanding and analyzing the streaming problem

So far, we have looked at data engineering problems that involve ingesting, storing, or analyzing the stored data. However, in today’s competitive business world, online web apps and mobile applications have made consumers more demanding and less patient. As a result, businesses must adapt and make decisions in real time. We will be trying to solve such a real-time decision-making problem in this chapter.

Problem statement

A financial firm, XYZ, that offers credit cards, has a credit card application that works in real time and uses various user interfaces such as mobile and online web applications. Since customers have multiple options and are less patient, XYZ wants to make sure that the credit loan officer can decide on credit card approval in a split second or in real time. To do that, the application needs to be analyzed and a credit risk score needs to be generated for each application. This risk score, along with...