Meetup #85 - Lambda Architecture

Lambda Architecture is a data-processing architecture designed to be fault tolerant (against both machine failures and human mistakes) and enable processing large amounts of data in near real-time. On our next meetup, we will discuss the article that introduced this architecture.

Article to read: How to beat the CAP theorem (http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html)

Meeting Lifeguard: A (https://github.com/psyho)dam Pohorecki (https://github.com/psyho)

Note: please note that we're changing our meetup location to Viva la Pinta on Floriańska. We're also looking for a company to sponsor beer on our meetups, so let me know if your company is interested.

Additional Reading

Lambda Architecture has gotten quite a lot of publicity since introduced in 2011, so there's no shortage of additional materials to pick from. Here's a short list of related resources that you might find interesting:

• "Runaway complexity in Big Data systems... and a plan to stop it" by Nathan Marz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucHjyb6jv08) - a conference talk about Lambda Architecture (covers pretty much the same topics as the article we are going to read)

• Questioning the Lambda Architecture (http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/questioning-the-lambda-architecture.html) - article pointing out some flaws in Lambda Architecture and proposing an alternative, "Kappa Architecture"

• "Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0) - a conference talk about Kappa Architecture

• Lambda Architecture: A state-of-the-art (http://www.datasalt.com/2014/01/lambda-architecture-a-state-of-the-art/) - blog post with some links to tools and approaches taken when adopting Lambda Architecture

• "Applying the Lambda Architecture with Spark" by Jim Scott (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKRp_afMk4)

• Lambda Architecture website (http://lambda-architecture.net/) - web page referencing even more resources related to Lambda Architecture