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Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

You're reading from  Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562349
Pages 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Anthony Virtuoso Anthony Virtuoso
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Mert Turkay Hocanin Mert Turkay Hocanin
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Aaron Wishnick Aaron Wishnick
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals Of Amazon Athena
2. Chapter 1: Your First Query 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon Athena 4. Chapter 3: Key Features, Query Types, and Functions 5. Section 2: Building and Connecting to Your Data Lake
6. Chapter 4: Metastores, Data Sources, and Data Lakes 7. Chapter 5: Securing Your Data 8. Chapter 6: AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation 9. Section 3: Using Amazon Athena
10. Chapter 7: Ad Hoc Analytics 11. Chapter 8: Querying Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data 12. Chapter 9: Serverless ETL Pipelines 13. Chapter 10: Building Applications with Amazon Athena 14. Chapter 11: Operational Excellence – Monitoring, Optimization, and Troubleshooting 15. Section 4: Advanced Topics
16. Chapter 12: Athena Query Federation 17. Chapter 13: Athena UDFs and ML 18. Chapter 14: Lake Formation – Advanced Topics 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Best practices for connecting to Athena

In this section, we're going to go over some things to consider when connecting to and calling Athena, including idempotency tokens and query tracking.

Idempotency tokens

I know this statement may come as a huge surprise to you, but perfect software does not exist. It's going to fail. There's a reason why there are so many different options out there for monitoring the operational status of an application. And among the infinitesimal category of possible failure scenarios, they can be narrowed down to two large categories – safe to retry and not safe to retry. It's that second category we will be focusing on in this section. More specifically there is a subcategory of not safe to retry that can quickly be summarized as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – you have no clue whether it is safe to retry; you know something happened, but exactly what happened is a complete mystery.

Thankfully Athena (and many other...

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