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Re:Outgrowing Apache Storm: why we built in-house distribute... by meatysnapper on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:36PM (#10314062)
If I remember right, the team that wrote Heron was most comfortable with C++, and that was a major reason in choosing it.
Re:Outgrowing Apache Storm: why we built in-house distribute... by scaleout1 on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:50AM (#10316928)
Heron is half Java and half c++ and could have been written on top of finagle had a different team inside Twitter had implemented it