Part 2. Serving layer

Part 2 focuses on the serving layer of the Lambda Architecture. The serving layer consists of databases that index and serve the results of the batch layer. Part 2 is short because databases that don’t require random writes are extraordinarily simple. Chapter 10 discusses the high-level concepts of the serving layer, while chapter 11 shows an example serving layer database called ElephantDB.

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