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Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation

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Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Use case


Today's social media websites capture a wealth of information. Many social media services such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are based largely on relationships: who you follow, are friends with, or have a business connection to. Beyond the obvious and explicit relationships, social media interactions also create a persistent set of implicit connections that can be easily taken for granted. With Twitter, for example, the obvious relationships consist of those one follows and who one is followed by. The less obvious relationships are the connections created, perhaps unknowingly, just by using the service. Have you directly messaged someone on Twitter? If yes, then you've formed a connection. Tweeted a URL? If yes, again a connection. Liked a product, service, or comment on Facebook? Connection. Even the act of using a specific word or phrase in a tweet or post can be thought of as creating a connection. By using that word, you are forming a connection with it, and by using it...