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Published inJul 2017
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Andrew Minteer
Andrew Minteer
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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
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Designing data processing for analytics


There are some key cloud services that are likely to be employed in your IoT data processing environment. Both AWS and Microsoft Azure have IoT-specific services that we will review. There are also services that support data processing and transformation that are worth a review to increase your familiarity with them.

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a set of services for loading and analyzing streaming data. It handles all the underlying compute, storage, and messaging services for you.

The services in the Kinesis family are as follows:

  • Amazon Kinesis Firehose: This enables loading of massive volumes of streaming data into AWS.
  • Amazon Kinesis Streams: This service allows you to create custom applications to process and analyze streaming data in real time. There are two ends to each stream; you use the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) to build the application that sends data into the stream. The Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) is used in the application...
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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787120730

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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
Read more about Andrew Minteer