For example, Twitter used to use Storm to process analytics on tweet data. They now use Heron. [1] Storm is valuable when your data is constantly being generated as a stream, on which you would like to perform processing immediately. I've previously also used Storm's distributed RPC cluster, where I fire off a task that I would like processed in the background and wait for the response to arrive.
For example, Twitter used to use Storm to process analytics on tweet data. They now use Heron. [1] Storm is valuable when your data is constantly being generated as a stream, on which you would like to perform processing immediately. I've previously also used Storm's distributed RPC cluster, where I fire off a task that I would like processed in the background and wait for the response to arrive.
[1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/flying-faster-with-twitter-her...