Data Lake for Enterprises

Data Ingestion Layer - technology mapping

For covering our use case and to build Data Lake we use Apache Flink in this layer as the technology. Other strong technology choices namely Apache Spark will also be explained a bit as we do feel that this is an equally good choice, in this layer. This chapter dives deep into Flink, though.

The following figure brings in the technology aspect to the conceptual architecture that we will be following throughout this book. We will keep explaining each technology and its relevance in the overall architecture before we brings all the technologies together in the final part of this book (Part 3):

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