Reference architecture for real-time streaming analytics

At the beginning of the chapter, you learned about clickstream analytics that integrated Amazon KDS and EMR with Spark Streaming to stream clickstream events in real time. The use case covered in this section is another use case that explains how you can stream Internet of Things (IoT) device events in real time to your data lake and data warehouse for real-time dashboards.

To give an overview of IoT, it's a network of physical objects called things that uses sensors and related software technologies to connect and exchange information with other devices or systems over the internet. These devices can be any household or industrial equipment that has a sensor and required software embedded into it to communicate with other devices or send messages to a central unit that monitors requests or signals.

The adoption of IoT around the world is increasing as analytics on device data can provide a lot of insights to optimize...