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Learning Storm

By : Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya
Book Image

Learning Storm

By: Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya

Overview of this book

<p>Starting with the very basics of Storm, you will learn how to set up Storm on a single machine and move on to deploying Storm on your cluster. You will understand how Kafka can be integrated with Storm using the Kafka spout.</p> <p>You will then proceed to explore the Trident abstraction tool with Storm to perform stateful stream processing, guaranteeing single message processing in every topology. You will move ahead to learn how to integrate Hadoop with Storm. Next, you will learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, and Kafka to realize the full potential of Storm.</p> <p>Finally, you will perform in-depth case studies on Apache log processing and machine learning with a focus on Storm, and through these case studies, you will discover Storm's realm of possibilities.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Storm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Defining a topology and the Kafka spout


This section will explain how you can read the server log from a Kafka topic. We will use the Kafka spout integration available on GitHub at https://github.com/wurstmeister/storm-kafka-0.8-plus for consuming the data from Kafka. This section also defines the LogProcessingTopology topology that will chain together all the bolts created in the preceding sections. Let's perform the following steps to consume the data from Kafka and define a topology:

  1. Add the following dependency and repository for Kafka in pom.xml:

        <dependency>
          <groupId>net.wurstmeister.storm</groupId>
          <artifactId>storm-kafka-0.8-plus</artifactId>
          <version>0.4.0</version>
        </dependency>
  2. Add the following build plugins to pom.xml. These plugins will let us execute LogProcessingTopology using Maven:

      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>...