In this chapter, we've introduced you to real-time analytics by creating a simple yet powerful topology that can be adapted to a wide range of applications. The components we've built are generic and can easily be reused and extended in other projects. Finally, we introduced a real-world spout implementation that can be used for a multitude of purposes.

While the topic of real-time analytics is very broad, and admittedly we've only been able to scratch the surface in this chapter, we encourage you to explore the techniques presented in other chapters of this book and consider how they may be incorporated into your analytics toolbox.

In the next chapter, we'll introduce you to Trident's distributed state mechanism by building an application that continuously writes Storm-processed data to a graph database.