Alexander Dean

ALEXANDER DEAN is cofounder and technical lead of Snowplow Analytics, an open source event processing and analytics platform.

books by Alexander Dean

Exploring Streaming Data Analysis

  • March 2020
  • ISBN 9781617298097
  • 94 pages

Exploring Streaming Data Analysis is a timely primer that gives you a taste of performing analytics on event streams using a Lambda function on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and deploying and testing an AWS Lambda function. You’ll learn the algorithmic side of stream processing, focusing on the what and why of streaming analysis algorithms. You’ll cover common constraints, approaches for thinking about time, and techniques for summarization. Finally, you’ll take a look at how the Kafka Streams framework uses local state to extract the maximum amount of information from event streams. This mini ebook provides the well-rounded introduction you need to get up to speed in the basics of streaming data analysis!

Event Streams in Action

  • May 2019
  • ISBN 9781617292347
  • 344 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Simplified Chinese

Event Streams in Action teaches you techniques for aggregating, storing, and processing event streams using the unified log processing pattern. In this hands-on guide, you’ll discover important application designs like the lambda architecture, stream aggregation, and event reprocessing. You’ll also explore scaling, resiliency, advanced stream patterns, and much more! By the time you’re finished, you’ll be designing large-scale data-driven applications that are easier to build, deploy, and maintain.