Chapter 5. Spark Streaming
All of us have been there. We go on to a new e-commerce website where we haven't bought anything before, like a new gadget, and decide to purchase it. As soon as we hit the checkout button, within a couple of seconds we get a message on our mobile phone from the credit card company asking if it was really us who was making the purchase. Let this sink in for a moment... The company has captured the transaction, realized it is not a usual transaction (some outlier detection mechanism), and made a call within a span of a few seconds.
It's a connected world out there, and streaming has become part and parcel of our digital life whether it is fraud detection, optimum ad placement, website monitoring, or self-driving cars. ...
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