Event Streams in Action

Real-time event systems with Kafka and Kinesis

Valentin Crettaz, Alexander Dean

• Publisher: Manning
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781617292347
• eBook ISBN: 9781638355830
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Data Processing
• Index: Computer Science

Summary

Event Streams in Action is a foundational book introducing the ULP paradigm and presenting techniques to use it effectively in data-rich environments.

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About the Technology

Many high-profile applications, like LinkedIn and Netflix, deliver nimble, responsive performance by reacting to user and system events as they occur. In large-scale systems, this requires efficiently monitoring, managing, and reacting to multiple event streams. Tools like Kafka, along with innovative patterns like unified log processing, help create a coherent data processing architecture for event-based applications.

About the Book

Event Streams in Action teaches you techniques for aggregating, storing, and processing event streams using the unified log processing pattern. In this hands-on guide, you'll discover important application designs like the lambda architecture, stream aggregation, and event reprocessing. You'll also explore scaling, resiliency, advanced stream patterns, and much more! By the time you're finished, you'll be designing large-scale data-driven applications that are easier to build, deploy, and maintain.

What's inside

• Validating and monitoring event streams
• Event analytics
• Methods for event modeling
• Examples using Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis

About the Reader

For readers with experience coding in Java, Scala, or Python.

About the Author

Alexander Dean developed Snowplow, an open source event processing and analytics platform. Valentin Crettaz is an independent IT consultant with 25 years of experience.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - EVENT STREAMS AND UNIFIED LOGS

1. Introducing event streams
2. The unified log 24
3. Event stream processing with Apache Kafka
4. Event stream processing with Amazon Kinesis
5. Stateful stream processing

PART 2- DATA ENGINEERING WITH STREAMS

6. Schemas
7. Archiving events
8. Railway-oriented processing
9. Commands

PART 3 - EVENT ANALYTICS

10. Analytics-on-read
11. Analytics-on-write

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Brief Table of Contents
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About this book
• About the authors
• About the cover illustration
• Part 1. Event streams and unified logs
• Part 2. Data engineering with streams
• Part 3. Event analytics
• Appendix. AWS primer
• Index
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Listings