Scalable Big Data Architecture: A Practitioner’s Guide to Choosing Relevant Big Data Architecture

CHAPTER 3

Defining the Processing Topology

In the previous chapter, I explained how to use a NoSQL technology in the architecture that you’re building in this book. The NoSQL technology provides some caching and searching features to the application, but since you want to process data, you need to define an approach to handle various streams of data so you can deliver insights to your users or data services to your applications.

This chapter will explain how to define the processing topology by walking you through a data architecture that is commonly used in IT organizations. Then you’ll see why splitting is something that comes naturally when ...