To continue with the approach of exploring various technologies and layer in Data Lakes, this chapter aims to cover another technology being used in the data acquisition layer. Similar to the previous chapter (and, in fact, every other chapter in this part of the book), we will first start with the overall context in purview of Data Lake and then delve deep into the selected technology.
Before delving deep into the chosen technology, we will give our reasons for choosing this technology and also will familiarize you with adequate details so that you are acquainted with enough details to go back to your enterprise and start actually using these technologies in action.
This chapter deals with Apache Flume, the second technology in the data acquisition layer. We will start off lightly on Apache Flume and then dive deep into the nitty-gritties. Finally we will show...
