Kafka, Flink and DynamoDB for Real Time Fraud Detection – Part 1 Local Development

Apache Flink is widely used for building real-time stream processing applications. On AWS, Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) is the easiest option to develop a Flink app as it provides the underlying infrastructure. Re-implementing a solution from an AWS workshop, this series of posts discuss how to develop and deploy a fraud detection app using Kafka, Flink and DynamoDB. Part 1 covers local development using Docker while deployment via KDA will be discussed in part 2.