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P. Taylor Goetz edited this page Nov 6, 2013 · 38 revisions

Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, is used by many companies, and is a lot of fun to use!

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Documentation

Getting help

NOTE: The google groups account [email protected] is now officially deprecated in favor of the Apache-hosted user/dev mailing lists.

Storm Users

Storm users should send messages and subscribe to [email protected].

You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to [email protected]. Likewise, you can cancel a subscription by sending an email to [email protected].

You can view the archives of the mailing list here.

Storm Developers

Storm developers should send messages and subscribe to [email protected].

You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to [email protected]. Likewise, you can cancel a subscription by sending an email to [email protected].

You can view the archives of the mailing list here.

Which list should I send/subscribe to?

If you are using a pre-built binary distribution of Storm, then chances are you should send questions, comments, storm-related announcements, etc. to [email protected].

If you are building storm from source, developing new features, or otherwise hacking storm source code, then [email protected] is more appropriate.

What will happen with [email protected]?

All existing messages will remain archived there, and can be accessed/searched here.

New messages sent to [email protected] will either be rejected/bounced or replied to with a message to direct the email to the appropriate Apache-hosted group.

IRC

You can also come to the #storm-user room on freenode. You can usually find a Storm developer there to help you out.

Related projects

Contributing to Storm

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Companies and projects powered by Storm

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