Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the authors

About the cover illustration

1. Event streams and unified logs

Chapter 1. Introducing event streams

1.1. Defining our terms

1.1.1. Events

1.1.2. Continuous event streams

1.2. Exploring familiar event streams

1.2.1. Application-level logging

1.2.2. Web analytics

1.2.3. Publish/subscribe messaging

1.3. Unifying continuous event streams

1.3.1. The classic era

1.3.2. The hybrid era

1.3.3. The unified era

1.4. Introducing use cases for the unified log

1.4.1. Customer feedback loops

1.4.2. Holistic systems monitoring

1.4.3. Hot-swapping data application versions

Summary

Chapter 2. The unified log

2.1. Understanding the anatomy of a unified log

2.1.1. Unified

2.1.2. Append-only

2.1.3. Distributed

2.1.4. Ordered

2.2. Introducing our application

2.2.1. Identifying our key events

2.2.2. Unified log, e-commerce style