This series updates a real time analytics app based on Amazon Kinesis from an AWS workshop. Data is ingested from multiple sources into a Kafka cluster instead and Flink (Pyflink) apps are used extensively for data ingesting and processing. As an introduction, this post compares the original architecture with the new architecture, and the app will be implemented in subsequent posts.

The data build tool (dbt) is an effective data transformation tool and it supports key AWS analytics services - Redshift, Glue, EMR and Athena. In part 2 of the dbt on AWS series, we discuss data transformation pipelines using dbt on AWS Glue. Subsets of IMDb data are used as source and data models are developed in multiple layers according to the dbt best practices.

Recently AWS Glue 3.0 was released but a docker image for this version is not published. In this post, I’ll illustrate how to create a development environment for AWS Glue 3.0 (and later versions) by building a custom docker image.

In this post, I'll demonstrate how to build development environments for AWS Glue 1.0 and 2.0 using the Docker image and the Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension.