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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

You're reading from   Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis Design and secure highly available, cost-effective data streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565401
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajeev Chakrabarti Rajeev Chakrabarti
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Tarik Makota Tarik Makota
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Brian Maguire Brian Maguire
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Danny Gagne Danny Gagne
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
2. Chapter 1: What Are Data Streams? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Messaging and Data Streaming in AWS 4. Chapter 3: The SmartCity Bike-Sharing Service 5. Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
6. Chapter 4: Kinesis Data Streams 7. Chapter 5: Kinesis Firehose 8. Chapter 6: Kinesis Data Analytics 9. Chapter 7: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams 10. Section 3: Integrations
11. Chapter 8: Kinesis Integrations 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6: Kinesis Data Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) is a service we use to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and create customer insights in near real time. KDA provides two types of analytics engines, SQL and Apache Flink. KDA is a fully managed serverless service that reduces the complexity of building, managing, and operating analytical streaming applications. In other words, we don't have to stand up, patch, or maintain any servers. Amazon Web Services also handles the scaling of underlying compute resources based on our KDA application needs.

Data has become the blood of every company, regardless of the industry. Lately, hot data usually has much more value than data at rest; cold data. Keeping competitive nowadays means being able to process large amounts of hot data in seconds. For example, if an online retailer has a promotion for some of its items, it's more valuable to know what's in shoppers' carts while they are actively...

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