AWS Architecture Blog
Author: Shani Adadi Kazaz
Shani Kazaz has been working at AWS since 2018 in multiple job roles, including software developer, technical account manager (TAM), Serverless GTM Specialist and now AppMod GTM specialist in Israel. Outside of work, Shani loves to travel, cook, and listen to good music.
How Nielsen uses serverless concepts on Amazon EKS for big data processing with Spark workloads
In this post, we follow Nielsen’s journey to build a robust and scalable architecture while enjoying linear scaling. We start by examining the initial challenges Nielsen faced and the root causes behind these issues. Then, we explore Nielsen’s solution: running Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) while adopting serverless concepts.