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Sherihan Sheriff Dec 12, 2017

An excellent guide for both beginners and seasoned professionals that gives a practical insight on building a data lake using Big data technologies. Looking forward to more similar work from the authors in future.

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aussiejim Sep 30, 2018

I like the diagrams that simplified the various conceptsall in all I found this a useful resource

Anonymous Jun 04, 2019

I am writing a detailed review in hopes that it will help others decide if this book is right for them. More importantly, I hope that the author will see these comments and correct some of the current issues in the next version.I was looking for a book to increase my knowledge of data lake implementation patterns, with technical details on batch vs real time processing, data storage, and data processing strategies. I liked the outline and approach the author chose to discuss these topics (refer to TOC), and it did contain some useful information that I was able to apply to my situation. For anyone using the Apache tools it describes several of the major technologies and when to and when not to use them. I was able to apply these to other technologies as well.The problem is that the book is full of bad grammar, misspelled words (e.g., “willn’t”), wordy/repetitive sentences (see example below), and sections where the pictures don’t match the accompanying text (e.g., the author refers to colors on a B/W picture). I give the book 3 ½ stars out of 5 in its current state. It would be a 4 if they had a tech writer proof read it, fix the grammar issues and rewrite some of the sentences to be easier to understand. With a second pass to fix consistency issues, it would be a solid 5.Detailed example of wordy/repetitive sentences…(Coped from Chapter 8 – Data Processing using Apache Flink)The technology that we have shortlisted to do this very important job of processing data is Apache Flink. I have to say that this selection was quite difficult as we have another technology in mind, namely Apache Spark, which was really strong in this area and more matured. But we decided to go with Flink in the end considering its pros. However, we have also detailed Spark a bit as opposed to other chapters in which we have just named other options and left it, because of its significance in this space.(2 pages later)For covering our use case and to build Data Lake we use Apache Flink in this layer as the technology. Other strong technology choices namely Apache Spark will also be explained a bit as we do feel that this is an equally good choice, in this layer. This chapter dives deep into Flink, though.(next page)The technology choice in this layer was really tough for us. Apache Spark was initially our choice, but Apache Flink had something in it that made us think over and at the time of writing this book, the industry did have some pointers favoring Flink and this made us do the final choice as Flink. However, we could have implemented this layer using Spark and it would have worked well for sure.After 50 pages of Flink related discussions, there is ½ page high level overview of Apache Spark.

Dimitri Shvorob Apr 04, 2018

If it is "data lake" that piqued your interest, don't bother - as far as I can tell, it is just the current buzzword for company's data estate. "Data Lake for Enterprises" is a big-data book, starting with a discussion of Nathan Marz's "lambda architecture" and continuing with a tour of a set of big-data technologies which could be used to flesh out elements of that architecture. The Manning-published "Big Data" by Marz and Warren immediately suggests itself as an alternative, and I am sure that others exists - it's too bad that the earlier reviews mention none. Unfortunately, I am not a big-data guy, and cannot offer competent advice. I can say that (a) Stephen Yegge's complaints are overblown - as could be expected from Packt, the book is sloppily written and never proof-read, but it is not difficult to understand, (b) when skimmed, the book has made a decent impression.

VG Dec 22, 2017

Expected a lot more. It is lots of small bits and pieces of information trying to touch too many topics, mixing concepts (Very little of it) and implementation products (more of it).

Data Lake for Enterprises: Lambda Architecture for building enterprise data systems

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