Scalable Big Data Architecture, 1st ed. A practitioners guide to choosing relevant Big Data architecture

This book highlights the different types of data architecture and illustrates the many possibilities hidden behind the term "Big Data", from the usage of No-SQL databases to the deployment of stream analytics architecture, machine learning, and governance.

Scalable Big Data Architecture covers real-world, concrete industry use cases that leverage complex distributed applications , which involve web applications, RESTful API, and high throughput of large amount of data stored in highly scalable No-SQL data stores such as Couchbase and Elasticsearch. This book demonstrates how data processing can be done at scale from the usage of NoSQL datastores to the combination of Big Data distribution.

This book shows you how to choose a relevant combination of big data technologies available within the Hadoop ecosystem. It focuses on processing long jobs, architecture, stream data patterns, log analysis, and real time analytics. Every pattern is illustrated with practical examples, which use the different open sourceprojects such as Logstash, Spark, Kafka, and so on.

Scalable Big Data Architecture is for developers, data architects, and data scientists looking for a better understanding of how to choose the most relevant pattern for a Big Data project and which tools to integrate into that pattern.

Chapter 1: I think I have a Big (data) Problem (20 pages)

Chapter Goal: This chapter aims to introduce you to the topology of common existing limitations when it comes to dealing with large amounts of data, and what are the common solutions to those problems. The goal here is to lay down the foundation of a heterogeneous architecture that will be described in the following chapters.

1- Identifying Big Data symptoms

2- Understanding the Big Data projects ecosystem

3- Creating the foundation of a long term Big Data architecture

Chapter 2: Early Big Data with No-SQL (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: This chapter aims to describe how a No-SQL database can be a starting point for your Big Data project, how it can deal with large amounts of data, what are the limits of this model and how it can be scaled to a full-fledged Big Data project.

1- Choosing the right No-SQL database

2- Introduction to Couchbase

3- Introduction to Elasticsearch

4- Using No-SQL cache in a SQL based architecture

Chapter 3: Big Data processing jobs topology (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: The more data you get, the more important it is to split the processing into different jobs depending on the topology of the processing.

1- Big Data Job processing strategy

2- Smart data extraction from No-SQL database

3- Short term processing jobs.

4- Long term processing jobs.

Chapter 4: Big Data Streaming Pattern (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: This chapter helps the readers to understand what are their options when it comes to dealing with streaming high data throughput.

1- Identifying streaming data sources

2- Streaming with Big Data projects (Flume) versus Enterprise Service Bus

3- Processing architecture for stream data

Chapter 5: Querying and Analysing Patterns (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: In this chapter, the readers will understand how to leverage the processing work through long term & real time data querying.

1- "Process then Query" strategy versus real-time querying

2- Process, store and query data in Elasticsearch

3- Real-Time querying using Spark

Chapter 6: How About Learning from your Data? (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: This chapter will introduce the concept of machine learning at different level of the preceding described patterns and through different relative methodology.

1- Introduction to machine learning

2- Supervised and Unsupervised learning

3- A simple example of Machine learning

4- Using MLlib for machine learning

Chapter 7: Governance Considerations (20 pages)

Chapter Goal: Monitoring, and more generally governance is extremely important when dealing with architecture that involves all the previous patterns. This chapter is to safeguard the reader from major issues, and to gain visibility and control over the architecture.

1- Data Quality

2- Architecture Scalability

3- Security

4- Monitoring     

This book not only gives a landscape of Big Data ecosystem, but will guide the readers on the reasons to use a project regarding a Big Data use case, as well

A step by step guide that will walk you through common Big Data patterns--helping you to understand the context & perimeter one should focus on for their specific needs

This book help the readers to get visibility on how Big Data can solve data processing problem through real industry use cases

The readers will understand the limits of each pattern, and then will be able to compose them into a heterogeneous architecture

Understanding the fundamentals of machine learning and how to handle it