Data-engineering

Kinesis Data Streams is the backbone of real-time data pipelines on AWS. This post covers the layered architecture AWS recommends, the tradeoffs between provisioned and on-demand modes, and the operational details that matter in production.

A practical walkthrough of designing a high-throughput telemetry pipeline on AWS — from ingestion through Kinesis to enrichment in Lambda and storage in S3 and DynamoDB — with lessons learned from production deployments.