kinesis

When designing Workiva’s durable messaging system we took a hard look at using Amazon’s Kinesis as the message storage and delivery mechanism. At first glance, Kinesis has a feature set that looks like it can solve any problem: it can store terabytes of data, it can replay old messages, and it can support multiple message consumers. But if you dig a little deeper you will find that Kinesis is well suited for a very particular use case, and if your application doesn’t fit this use case, Kinesis may be a lot more trouble than it’s worth....

I’ve been working on an application to read data from a Kinesis using the Kinesis Client Library for Java. One requirement was to be able to run the application locally during development. This requires configuring Kinesis, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch to work locally. Dynalite Getting a local copy of DynamoDB running is easily done using the dynalite library. > npm install -g dynalite > dynalite --port 7000 Kinesalite A local copy of Kinesis is found with the kinesalite library....