Data Streaming Assignment

Architecture Diagram

Clarifications

• It is assumed that the data being warehoused in S3 does not need to be converted into a columnar data format for the purposes of this assignment.
• Cloudwatch is the primary monitoring, log aggregation and APM tool for this assignment.

Setup Infrastructure on Local Environment

Warning

• The record format presented to the transformation lambda by localstack is not the same as the actual one on AWS so things can error out on local.
• To connect to your actual AWS account please add your account id to the allowed_account_ids list in terraform/main.tf.

Install AWS cli

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

Install jq

wget https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-1.7.1/jq-linux-amd64
mv jq-linux-amd64 jq
chmod +x jq

Install terraform according to the official installation procedure: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install?product_intent=terraform#linux

Install pipenv and other required packages

pip install pipenv
pipenv install

Setup AWS resources using terraform

pipenv shell
tflocal plan
tflocal apply

Create the IAM user for the script

awslocal iam create-user --user-name stream-user
awslocal iam create-access-key --user-name stream-user > ./infra/credentials.json

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$(cat infra/credentials.json | ./infra/jq '.AccessKey.AccessKeyId')
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(cat infra/credentials.json | ./infra/jq '.AccessKey.SecretAccessKey')

Start record ingestion

python producer.py