Principles of Lambda Architecture

Nathan Marz, in his Big Data book, has given full-fledged details on the Lambda Architecture pattern. The following are the three main principles on which his pattern has been developed. Some of these have been briefly covered in the previous section.

• Fault-tolerant
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Human
• Immutable Data
• Re-computation

Lets detail each one of these principles in the next sections.

Fault-tolerant principle

Hardware, software, and human fault tolerance should be part of this pattern. The pattern is for catering to big data, and because of this, any of these faults can be a big problem to recover from. So, data loss and data corruption don’t have any  place in this pattern because of the data vastness. If it does...