Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Lambda Architecture in detail. In our Data Lake implementation, the Lambda Layer (an implementation of the Lambda Architecture) forms an integral part.

We have taken care to introduce only the theoretical aspects of Lambda Architecture in this chapter, and stayed away from all technologies; we want you to understand that this is a pattern and any technology can be used to implement various parts of this architecture without much trouble. In the next chapter, however, we will start introducing technologies and will introduce places where it can be used.

The first few sections of this chapter introduced you to this pattern and later sections detailed a bit more of each of the components/layers forming a Lambda Architecture. We stated the advantages and disadvantages associated with this pattern and gave a full picture of this pattern in detail before wrapping up.

We hope you now have enough of a background on Data, Data Lake, and Lambda Architecture; you can go to the next chapter to actually implement a Data Lake for your enterprise.