What this book covers

Section – A:  Introduction – Getting Familiar

This section gives the readers basic familiarity with the real-time analytics spectra and domains. We talk about the basic components and their building blocks. This sections consist of the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Introducing Real-Time Analytics
• Chapter 2: Real-Time Application – The Basic Ingredients

Section – B:  Setup and Infrastructure

This section is predominantly setup-oriented, where we have the basic components set up. This sections consist of the following chapters:

• Chapter 3: Understanding and Tailing Data Streams
• Chapter 4: Setting Up the infrastructure for Storm
• Chapter 5: Configuring Apache Spark and Flink

Section – C: Storm Computations

This section predominantly focuses on exploring Storm, its compute capabilities, and its various features. This sections consist of the following chapters:

• Chapter 6: Integration of Source with Storm
• Chapter 7: From Storm to Sink
• Chapter 8: Storm Trident

Section – D: Using Spark Compute In Real Time

This section predominantly focuses on exploring Spark, its compute capabilities, and its various features. This sections consist of the following chapters:

• Chapter 9: Working with Spark
• Chapter 10: Working with Spark Operations
• Chapter 11: Spark Streaming

Section – E: Flink for Real-Time Analytics
This section focuses on exploring Flink, its compute capabilities, and its various features.

• Chapter 12: Working with Apache Flink

Section – F: Let’s Have It Stringed Together

This sections consist of the following chapters:

• Chapter 13: Case Study 1