Apache Storm Tutorial

Storm was originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType. BackType is a social analytics company. Later, Storm was acquired and open-sourced by Twitter. In a short time, Apache Storm became a standard for distributed real-time processing system that allows you to process large amount of data, similar to Hadoop. Apache Storm is written in Java and Clojure. It is continuing to be a leader in real-time analytics. This tutorial will explore the principles of Apache Storm, distributed messaging, installation, creating Storm topologies and deploy them to a Storm cluster, workflow of Trident, real-time applications and finally concludes with some useful examples.

This tutorial has been prepared for professionals aspiring to make a career in Big Data Analytics using Apache Storm framework. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on creating and deploying a Storm cluster in a distributed environment.

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you must have a good understanding of Core Java and any of the Linux flavors.