Abstract

Kinesis is a managed streaming data service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is used extensively at Disney Streaming Services for real-time and batch analytics, and supports features like personalized views, stream concurrency, and analysis of application domain events. In this blog post, I will be going over how our API Services team at Disney Streaming Services implemented an auto scaling feature to Kinesis, which allows us to gracefully stream data during peak periods of traffic, while remaining cost-efficient.

Problem

What Our Team Does

Here at Disney Streaming Services, we on the API services team (myself included) are responsible for applications that expose our…