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Serverless ETL and Analytics with AWS Glue

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564985
Pages 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (6):
Vishal Pathak Vishal Pathak
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Subramanya Vajiraya Subramanya Vajiraya
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Noritaka Sekiyama Noritaka Sekiyama
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Tomohiro Tanaka Tomohiro Tanaka
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Albert Quiroga Albert Quiroga
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Ishan Gaur Ishan Gaur
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1 – Introduction, Concepts, and the Basics of AWS Glue
2. Chapter 1: Data Management – Introduction and Concepts 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Important AWS Glue Features 4. Chapter 3: Data Ingestion 5. Section 2 – Data Preparation, Management, and Security
6. Chapter 4: Data Preparation 7. Chapter 5: Data Layouts 8. Chapter 6: Data Management 9. Chapter 7: Metadata Management 10. Chapter 8: Data Security 11. Chapter 9: Data Sharing 12. Chapter 10: Data Pipeline Management 13. Section 3 – Tuning, Monitoring, Data Lake Common Scenarios, and Interesting Edge Cases
14. Chapter 11: Monitoring 15. Chapter 12: Tuning, Debugging, and Troubleshooting 16. Chapter 13: Data Analysis 17. Chapter 14: Machine Learning Integration 18. Chapter 15: Architecting Data Lakes for Real-World Scenarios and Edge Cases 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Populating metadata

The first step of any Data Catalog is to populate it with databases and tables. AWS Glue provides both manual and automatic options for doing so, the latter being particularly useful to avoid the cumbersomeness of defining datasets from scratch. This section will explain how the Data Catalog works and will demonstrate how to interact with it in different ways.

Glue Data Catalog API

Just as in other AWS services, AWS Glue offers a fully fledged application programming interface (API; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api.html) to interact with it, which includes the Data Catalog. Thus, operations such as creating a database or a table can be done through said API or any of its containers, such as the AWS CLI or any of the software development kits (SDKs).

For instance, let’s start populating our catalog manually. The first step is to create a database, which we can do using the AWS CLI. The CLI Command Reference page (https://docs...

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