Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the big data architecture and components for a big data pipeline design. You learned about data ingestion and various technology choices available to collect batch and stream data for processing. As the cloud is central to storing the vast amounts of data produced today, you learned about the various services available to ingest data in the AWS cloud ecosystem.
Data storage is one of the central points of handling big data. You learned about various kinds of data stores, including structured and unstructured data, NoSQL, and data warehousing, with the appropriate technology choices associated with each. You learned about cloud data storage from popular public cloud providers.
Once you collect and store data, you need to transform it to get insights into that data and visualize your business requirements. You learned about data processing architecture and technology choices to choose open source and cloud-based data processing tools...