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Sakti Mishra
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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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Integrating AWS Step Functions to orchestrate EMR jobs

AWS Step Functions supports createCluster, createCluster.sync, terminateCluster, terminateCluster.sync, addStep, cancelStep, setClusterTerminationProtection, modifyInstanceFleetByName, and modifyInstanceGroupByName EMR actions, which provides a great flexibility to build workflows on top of EMR.

Let's assume that you would like to build a workflow that gets triggered as soon as a file arrives in S3 and the objective of the workflow is to execute a Spark + Hudi job to process the input file. The workflow is supposed to create a transient EMR cluster, submit a Spark job that does ETL transforms, and then, upon completion of the job, terminate the cluster. You can easily build this workflow using AWS Step Functions' createCluster, addStep, and terminateCluster actions.

The following JSON definition is an example of a Step Functions' step that is of the Task type and invokes the EMR createCluster action with parameters...

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801071079

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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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