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