Kinesis Stream

A wrapper around KCL 2.x which exposes an Akka Streams source to consume messages off of a Kinesis Data Stream.

Requirements

• Scala 2.12 or 2.13
• Akka Streams >= 2.6.0

Usage

build.sbt

libraryDependencies += "com.500px" %% "kinesis-stream" % "0.1.8"

note: Due to java package names not allowing numbers, the import path for the project is px.kinesis.stream.consumer.

Simple Example (At Most Once Delivery)

In the following example, we consume from a stream named test-stream and name our kinesis application test-app.

note: To test this example out, you will need the required IAM policies.

import akka.Done
import akka.actor.ActorSystem
import akka.stream.ActorMaterializer
import akka.stream.scaladsl.{Keep, RunnableGraph, Sink}
import px.kinesis.stream.consumer

import scala.concurrent.Future

object Main extends App {

  implicit val system = ActorSystem("kinesis-source")
  implicit val ec = system.dispatcher
  implicit val mat = ActorMaterializer()

  // A simple consumer that will print to the console for now
  val console = Sink.foreach[String](println)

  // In this example, commit as soon as we consume a record, giving us at-most-once delivery semantics.
  // To achieve at-least-once, we would commit after processing the record
  val runnableGraph: RunnableGraph[Future[Done]] =
    consumer
      .source("test-stream", "test-app")
      .via(consumer.commitFlow(parallelism = 2)) // convenience flow to commit records (marking records processed)
      .map(r => r.data.utf8String)
      .toMat(console)(Keep.left)

  val done = runnableGraph.run()
  done.onComplete(_ => {
    println("Shutdown completed")
    system.terminate()
  })

}

Configuration using hocon

The Kinesis Consumer can be configured via HOCON configuration as is common for Akka projects

example.consumer {
  application-name = "test-app" # name of the application (consumer group)
  stream-name = "test-stream" # name of the stream to connect to

  position {
    initial = "latest" # (latest, trim-horizon, at-timestamp). defaults to latest
    #time = "" # Only set if position is at-timestamp. Supports a valid Java Date parseable datetime string
  }

  checkpoint {
    #completion-timeout = "30s" # When a Shard End / Shutdown event occurs, this timeout determines how long to wait for all in-flight messages to be marked processed. Defaults to 30s
    #timeout = "20s" # timeout for checkpoints to complete. (Checkpoints are completed when the checkpoint actor accepts the checkpoint sequence number). defaults to 20s
    #max-buffer-size = 10000 # Maximum number of records to process before calling checkpoint (internally). All messages MUST be marked processed by client, before they can be considered for checkpointing.
    #max-duration = "60s" # Max duration to wait between checkpoint calls
  }
}

Configuring the consumer using ConsumerConfig.

//...

consumer.source(ConsumerConfig.fromConfig(system.settings.config.getConfig("example.consumer")))

Configuring using native AWS SDK config

The ConsumerConfig class has methods for accepting raw AWS SDK clients which can be configured. If you require very custom configuration, this option is available.

Gotchas

Checkpointing

You MUST ensure to mark all in-flight messages as processed. The checkpoint tracking component needs to keep track of all in-flight messages and as such, could run out of memory if messages are not marked as processed regularly.

If you choose to do at-most-once processing, a simple solution is to mark a record as processed as soon as it arrives on the stream.

Required IAM Permissions

The following IAM permissions are required to use KCL 2.x

• STREAM_ARN - the ARN of the Kinesis stream being consumed from
• DYNAMO_ARN - the ARN of the DynamoDB table that the KCL will use for checkpointing
  • The name of the table will correspond to the application name set for the consumer

{
    "PolicyName": "Kinesis-Consumer",
    "PolicyDocument": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kinesis:RegisterStreamConsumer",
            "kinesis:DescribeStreamSummary",
            "kinesis:ListShards",
            "kinesis:DescribeStream",
            "kinesis:GetShardIterator",
            "kinesis:GetRecords",
            "kinesis:PutRecord",
            "kinesis:PutRecords"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "{STREAM_ARN}"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kinesis:SubscribeToShard",
            "kinesis:ListStreams",
            "kinesis:DescribeStreamConsumer"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "dynamodb:*"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "{DYNAMO_ARN}"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }

Improvements

• Implement a RecordProcessor which does not use a checkpoint tracker to allow for a simpler at-most-once processing.