Working with Amazon Kinesis

This course will provide you with a good foundation to better understand Amazon Kinesis, along with helping you to get started with building streamed solutions. In this course, we'll put a heavier emphasis on hands-on demos along with breaking down the concepts and introducing you to the components that make up Amazon Kinesis.

Intended audience

• People working with Big Data
• Business intelligence
• DevOps
• Development

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate knowledge of Amazon Kinesis, what are the core aspects of the service (streams, firehose, analytics), their common use cases, big data use cases, and how do you access / integrate with the Kinesis service Demonstrate how to work with and create Kinesis streams
• Demonstrate how to work with Kinesis Firehose and how to use Firehose with Redshift
• Set up monitoring and analysis of the stream services
• Understand how to extract analysis from Kinesis

This Course Includes

• 45 minutes of high-definition video
• Live demonstrations on key course concepts

What You'll Learn

• What is Streaming Data: An overview of streaming data and it’s common uses.
• Setting Up Kinesis Agent: In this demo, we're working with installing the Amazon Kinesis Stream agent.
• Kinesis Streams: An overview of Kinesis Streams, what they do, and common use cases.
• Performing Basic Stream Operations: In this demo, we'll be pulling a basic Amazon Kinesis stream from the command line.
• Firehose: In this lesson, we'll be discussing the fully managed solution, Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
• Firehose Delivery Stream: In this demo, we're going to set up an Amazon Kinesis Firehose stream.
• Testing Delivery Stream: In this lesson, we're going to do a quick follow up to the Firehose stream, and test the data delivery.
• Kinesis Analytics: In this lesson, we'll go over the analytics components of Kinesis.
• Kinesis Analytics Demo: In this demo, we're going to begin working with Amazon Kinesis Analytics.
• Kinesis Features Comparison: In this lesson, we'll compare some products within the Amazon Kinesis suite, as well as some other Amazon services.
• Course Conclusion: A wrap-up and review of the course.

Updates

28/05/2019 - Re-record of lectures to improve audio