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Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

You're reading from Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562349

Pages 438 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Processing

Authors (3):

Anthony Virtuoso

Mert Turkay Hocanin

Aaron Wishnick

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamentals Of Amazon Athena

2. Chapter 1: Your First Query

3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon Athena

4. Chapter 3: Key Features, Query Types, and Functions

5. Section 2: Building and Connecting to Your Data Lake

6. Chapter 4: Metastores, Data Sources, and Data Lakes

7. Chapter 5: Securing Your Data

8. Chapter 6: AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation

9. Section 3: Using Amazon Athena

10. Chapter 7: Ad Hoc Analytics

11. Chapter 8: Querying Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data

12. Chapter 9: Serverless ETL Pipelines

13. Chapter 10: Building Applications with Amazon Athena

14. Chapter 11: Operational Excellence – Monitoring, Optimization, and Troubleshooting

Technical requirements

15. Section 4: Advanced Topics

16. Chapter 12: Athena Query Federation

17. Chapter 13: Athena UDFs and ML

18. Chapter 14: Lake Formation – Advanced Topics

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

How Athena Connectors work

Unsurprisingly, Athena Connectors follow a similar structure to both Presto and Trinio Connectors, with one notable difference. Athena's Federation SDK is designed to decouple your Connector from Athena's core engine, whereas both Presto and Trinio require Connectors to run within the engine. If you keep this key difference in mind, much of what we are about to describe applies to Athena, Presto, and Trinio. At the heart of each Connector is the Athena Federation SDK, which provides an abstraction over the boilerplate code required to enable Athena to orchestrate your federated query. Every Athena Connector is required to implement the following six functions defined in the SDK (https://bit.ly/3vXmm9j):

doListSchemaNames(…): This function provides Athena with a list of schemas, also known as databases, that the Connector believes are available in the federated source.
doListTables(…): This function provides Athena with...

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Authors (3)

Anthony Virtuoso

Anthony Virtuoso works as a Principal Engineer at Amazon and holds multiple patents in distributed systems, software defined networks, and security. In his eight years at Amazon, he has helped launch several Amazon Web Services, the most recent of which was Amazon Managed Blockchain. As one of the original authors of Athena Query Federation, you'll often find him lurking on the Athena Federation GitHub repository answering questions and shipping bug fixes. When not at work, Anthony obsesses over a different set of customers, namely his wife and two little boys, aged 2 and 5. His kids enjoy doing science experiments with dad, like 3D printing toys, building with Lego, or searching the local pond for tardigrades.

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Mert Turkay Hocanin

Mert Turkay Hocanin is a Principal Big Data Architect at Amazon Web Services within the AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation services and has previously worked for several other services including Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Managed Blockchain. During his time at AWS, he worked with several Fortune 500 companies on some of the largest data lakes in the world and was involved with the launching of three Amazon Web Services. Prior to being a Big Data Architect, he was a Senior Software Developer within Amazon's retail systems organization building one of the earliest data lakes in the company in 2013. When he is not helping customers build data lakes, he enjoys spending time with his wife-Subrina, son-Tristan, and exploring New York City.

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Aaron Wishnick

Aaron Wishnick works as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon, where he has been for 7 years. During that time he has worked on Amazon's payment systems, financial intelligence systems, as well as working for AWS on Athena and AWS Proton. When not at work, Aaron and his fiance, Alyssa, are on a quest to determine just how much dog fur is too much, with their husky and malamute, Mina and Wally.

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