Fundamentals of Stream Processing (IBM InfoSphere Streams, TIBCO StreamBase, Apache Storm) – Book Review

Internet of things, cloud and mobile are the major drivers for stream processing. Use cases are network monitoring, intelligent surveillance, but also less technical things such as inventory management or fraud detection. The book helps a lot to get a basic understanding about history, concepts and patterns of the stream processing paradigm.
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Integration of Amazon Redshift Cloud Data Warehouse (AWS SaaS DWH) with Talend Data Integration (DI) / Big Data (BD) / Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

In this blog post, I will show you how to „ETL“ all kinds of data to Amazon’s cloud data warehouse Redshift wit Talend’s big data components. You need not be a cloud or DWH expert, or an expert developer to integrate with Amazon’s cloud data warehouse Redshift. It is very easy with Talend’s integration solutions. Just drag&drop, configure, do some graphical mappings / transformations (if necessary), that’s it. Code is generated. Job runs. With Talend, you can easily „ETL“ all data from different sources to Redshift and store it there for under $1,000 per terabyte per year – even with the open source version!
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