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Serverless Architectures with AWS

You're reading from   Serverless Architectures with AWS Discover how you can migrate from traditional deployments to serverless architectures with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789805024
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Gupta Mohit Gupta
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Amazon Kinesis Firehose


Let's suppose you're working with stock market data and you want to run minute-by-minute analytics on the market stocks (instead of waiting until the end of the day). You will have to create dynamic dashboards such as top performing stocks, and update your investment models as soon as new data arrives.

Traditionally, you could achieve this by building the backend infrastructure, setting up the data collection, and then processing the data. But it can be really hard to provision and manage a fleet of servers to buffer and batch the data arriving from thousands of sources simultaneously. Imagine that one of those servers goes down or something goes wrong in the data stream; you could actually end up losing data.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose makes it easy for you to capture and deliver real-time streaming data reliably to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Using Amazon Firehose, you can respond to data in near real time, enabling you to deliver powerful...

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