Kinesis: The Backbone of Real-Time Data Processing
Amazon Kinesis is both the caffeinated bloodstream of AWS as well as the pack mule quietly powering data streams for thousands of companies both big and small. It does so incredibly efficiently, and with the kind of relentless dependability only AWS could overcharge for. Kinesis ain’t joint tape or a fancy keyboard – it’s a real-time data stream processor. Below, we break down how Kinesis processes streams, what it’s good at, where it hurts, and why developers seem to both curse it and depend on it in equal measure. What Is Kinesis? At first glance, Kinesis looks straightforward: a way to get data from one place to another in real-time. But this is AWS, where every “simple” thing comes in … Read more