Harish Shan

This post is about Apache Storm and How to install Apache Storm 0.9.4 (latest version) on Windows 7 & Ubuntu 14.04.2 with an Hello World program. Overview of Apache Storm Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed system for real-time computation. Storm is implemented in Clojure & Storm APIs are written in Java by Nathan Marz & team at BackType. Storm is best for distributed processing where unbounded streams of real time data computation requires. In contrast to batch systems like Hadoop, which often introduce delay of hours, Storm allows us to process online data.Storm is extremely fast, with the ability to process over a million records per second per node on a cluster of modest size. About Nathan Marz Nathan Marz was the lead engineer on Twitter's Publisher Analytics team. Previously Nathan was the lead engineer of BackType which was acquired by Twitter in July of 2011. On march 2013 he left Twitter to start-up his own company He is a major bel...