[marcog1]

At Asana, we've been beta testing Kinesis Firehose. It's been quite convenient not having to manage much, and having the data end up in S3. We're also using Kinesis streams, and have a simple KCL app to pull from streams and write to Firehose. We're looking forward to when streams can be as easy to manage, or when we KCL apps can read from Firehose.

[nolite]

I'm confused.. why would you need a KCL app with Firehose (for reading or writing)?

[nolite]

Ah.... because AWS built these as two separate user-facing services, with completely different API's and no way to use their common underlying foundation together.... go Amazon...