In the previous chapter, while going through the concepts of Data Lakes, you were introduced a bit to Lambda Architecture. In this chapter, we will go into a bit of detail on Lambda Architecture and also try to explain the significance of this important architecture pattern in this book's Data Lake implementation.

This chapter, though it tries to cover this architecture paradigm in detail, doesn't give any technology implementation. This is intentional to make sure that you understand the concepts of these patterns first; once that is achieved, the following chapters will detail this pattern with technology backing.

After going through this chapter, you will learn the Lambda Architecture pattern in detail. Once you learn this pattern, you will also see how it forms an integral part of our Data Lake construction.