Amazon Kinesis Firehose

We are in the process of building a modern content platform to deliver our content through various channels. We decided to go with Microservices architecture as we wanted scale. Microservice architecture style is an approach to developing an application as a suite of small independently deployable services built around specific business capabilities. You can gain modularity, extensive parallelism and cost-effective scaling by deploying services across many distributed servers. Microservices modularity facilitates independent updates/deployments, and helps to avoid single point of failure, which can help prevent large-scale outages. We also decided to use Event Driven Architecture pattern which is a popular distributed asynchronous architecture pattern used to produce highly scalable applications. The event-driven architecture is made up of highly decoupled, single-purpose event processing components that asynchronously receive and process events.

To build our #Backend capabilities we decided to use the following: 1. #Microservices - Java with Spring Boot , Node.js with ExpressJS and Python with Flask 2. #Eventsourcingframework - Amazon Kinesis , Amazon Kinesis Firehose , Amazon SNS , Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda 3. #Data - Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon S3 , MongoDB Atlas

To build #Webapps we decided to use Angular 2 with RxJS

#Devops - GitHub , Travis CI , Terraform , Docker , Serverless

I'm currently building out a Twitter analysis tool that's using AWS Lambda to stream data into Amazon Kinesis Firehose, which in turns saves the result to Amazon S3. The plan is to have Amazon S3 operate as both a data store and quasi-messaging bus with any post-processing work (e.g., notifications of new tweets going into Slack) fanning out from there. I went with this approach as I can get things up and running quickly and only pay for things on a pay-per-use basis rather than having lots of worker nodes sitting around waiting for work. Amazon Kinesis Firehose also makes it easy to add a different or additional data store in the future.