Alexander Dean

DESCRIPTIONEvent Streams in Action is a foundational book introducing the ULPparadigm and presenting techniques to use it effectively in data-richenvironments. The book begins with an architectural overview,illustrating how ULP addresses the thorny issues associated withprocessing data from multiple sources. It then guides the readerthrough examples using the unified log technologies Apache Kafkaand Amazon Kinesis and a variety of stream processing frameworksand analytics databases. Readers learn to aggregate events frommultiple sources, store them in a unified log, and build data processingapplications on the resulting event streams. As readers progressthrough the book, they learn how to validate, filter, enrich, and storeevent streams, master key stream processing approaches, and exploreimportant patterns like the lambda architecture, stream aggregation,and event re-processing. The book also dives into the methods andtools usable for event modelling and event analytics, along withscaling, resiliency, and advanced stream patterns. KEY FEATURES • Building data-driven applications that are easier to design,deploy, and maintain• Uses real-world examples and techniques• Full of figures and diagrams• Hands-on code samples and walkthroughs This book assumes that the reader has written some Java code. SomeScala or Python experience is helpful but not required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGYUnified Log Processing is a coherent data processing architecture thatcombines batch and near-real time stream data, event logging andaggregation, and data processing into a unified event stream. By efficientlycreating a single log of events from multiple data sources, Unified LogProcessing makes it possible to design large-scale data-driven applicationsthat are easier to design, deploy, and maintain. AUTHOR BIOAlexander Dean is co-founder and technical lead of Snowplow Analytics,an open source event processing and analytics platform.

Brilliant, talented, and lost in the world, Dean an author and closeted neurotic, finds himself in the throes of literary success. As his book sales increase, so does the weight of his social status brought on by his retreat to Christmas Lake. A lakeside community, Dean attempts to find himself between towering trees and charming bungalows. But as his friendships break down and relationships crumble, the Writer soon learns that sometimes, we must be our own hero. The Writer of Christmas Lake's story is now yours to own.

A journey is often defined by a beginning and an end, but for Logan Harrison, a journey is defined by what happens in between. A counselor by degree and hopeless neurotic, Logan lives a feckless lifestyle of upper-class parties, people collecting, and name dropping. But when Logan meets Cailin Stiegfeld, everything changes. From the author of the Architect series and "Armistice," the story of the Writer, comes Alexander Dean's epic novel of a man wandering in search of himself, from the woods of southern Indiana to the hills of West Virginia.

The fourth book in the Architect series follows Klaus, the now retired Architect of Vevay, upon his return to Santa Claus. Filled with the existential wonder of southern Indiana, Alexander Dean's novel elicits the equivocal nature of life and the discernment of one's place within space and time. Through friends and lovers, sunrises and sunsets, and everything in between, Klaus comes to realize his place in modern society as an expatriate beside the tranquil waters of Christmas Lake.

Twenty-four years old and bored, Klaus, an architect and retreatist, finds himself living alongside Christmas Lake, a southern Indiana paradise where the sun always seems to shine. After escaping his hometown and college, Klaus decides to design homes in the peace and isolation of Santa Claus, Indiana. However, unbeknownst to the fledgling architect, a college student visiting her grandfather will soon become the most influential person he has ever met."Indiana" tells the story of love and love lost, the existential trials of young adulthood, and how one person can change another's world. Author Alexander Dean invites you to take a journey through the first book in the Architect series.