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Event Streams in Action
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Event Streams in Action

by Valentin Crettaz, Alexander Dean
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Archiving events

This chapter covers

  • Why you should be archiving raw events from your unified log
  • The what, where, and how of archiving
  • Archiving events from Kafka to Amazon S3
  • Batch-processing an event archive via Spark and Elastic MapReduce

So far, our focus has been on reacting to our events in stream, as these events flow through our unified log. We have seen some great near-real-time use cases for these event streams, including detecting abandoned shopping carts and monitoring our servers. You would be correct in thinking that the immediacy of a unified log is one of its most powerful features.

But in this chapter, we will take a slight detour and explore another path that our event streams can take: into a long-term store, ...

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