Chapter 4. Analyzing streaming data

This chapter covers

  • In-flight data analysis
  • The common stream-processing architecture
  • Key features common to stream-processing frameworks

In chapter 3 we spent time understanding and thinking through the importance of the message queuing tier. That tier is designed to gather data from the collection tier and make it available to be moved through the rest of the streaming architecture. At this point the data is ready and waiting for us to consume and do magic with. In this chapter you’re going to learn about the analysis tier. Our goal is to get to know the underlying principles of this tier, and in chapter 5 we’ll dive into all the ways to use this tier to perform magic on the data. With that frame of ...

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