but disappointing. There are many good chances in the book that could lead to a helpful handbook, However, nearly none of them is used, The title is about architectures plural, while the book only covers one architecture in detail,
I doubt the usefulness of explaining the technical parts while not covering enough the interactions between them, Could you drive a car when I explain you that this big thing in the front is an engine, the round thing at the side is called a wheel and that little switch here opens your windows Probably not.
It would be much better when this book would focus on the analytics part and only show you a diagram of a possible architecture.
What is there now does neither in a satisfying manner,
This isn't so much a book as a managementstyle slide presentation puffed up with interstitial text, From a technical standpoint it is contentfree, Short summary what are technologies used in stream application architecture, Cohesive showcase of difference between batch processing and stream processing, Of course there is emphasis on usage of Akka as book is written from Lightbend, Overall interesting. A very good introduction into the topic, Book explains most important topics in fast data architecture and I think its excellent for start point, Its a decent high level overview for people new to streaming data architectures, If you need the nuts and bolts for tech implementations, other longer and newer references may be more suitable, sitelink post a comment.