"Pravega Stream Storage Fundamentals"
"Pravega Stream Storage Fundamentals" offers a comprehensive guide to the architecture, principles, and operational advantages of Pravega, the next-generation stream storage system designed for modern data-driven applications. Beginning with a deep dive into the evolution of stream storage and contrasting Pravega with established platforms like Kafka and Pulsar, the book distills core concepts such as streams, segments, events, and transactions. Readers are provided with both foundational knowledge and practical use cases, equipping them to build and integrate event-driven architectures, real-time analytics solutions, and high-throughput data pipelines.
The book systematically unpacks the intricacies of Pravega's system architecture, from the logical and physical structure to deployment best practices in microservices environments. Detailed explorations of the Stream Segment Store, controller mechanisms, tiered storage strategies, and ZooKeeper coordination provide clarity on how Pravega achieves scalability, resilience, and performance at enterprise scale. Comprehensive chapters on data models, API design, client libraries, and parallelization techniques ensure readers gain the technical depth necessary for implementing robust, exactly-once processing pipelines and consistent data flows.
Beyond architecture and APIs, "Pravega Stream Storage Fundamentals" delves into advanced topics critical for production operations: security frameworks, compliance, multi-tenancy, operational monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The book concludes with forward-looking perspectives on emerging use cases, cutting-edge architectural patterns, and ongoing innovations driven by the open-source community. Whether you are an architect, developer, or data engineer, this book is an authoritative resource for mastering state-of-the-art stream storage with Pravega.