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Mastering Apache Storm

By : Ankit Jain
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Mastering Apache Storm

By: Ankit Jain

Overview of this book

Apache Storm is a real-time Big Data processing framework that processes large amounts of data reliably, guaranteeing that every message will be processed. Storm allows you to scale your data as it grows, making it an excellent platform to solve your big data problems. This extensive guide will help you understand right from the basics to the advanced topics of Storm. The book begins with a detailed introduction to real-time processing and where Storm fits in to solve these problems. You’ll get an understanding of deploying Storm on clusters by writing a basic Storm Hello World example. Next we’ll introduce you to Trident and you’ll get a clear understanding of how you can develop and deploy a trident topology. We cover topics such as monitoring, Storm Parallelism, scheduler and log processing, in a very easy to understand manner. You will also learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Hadoop to realize the full potential of Storm. With real-world examples and clear explanations, this book will ensure you will have a thorough mastery of Apache Storm. You will be able to use this knowledge to develop efficient, distributed real-time applications to cater to your business needs.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

About the Reviewers

Doug Ortiz is a senior big data artechitect at ByteCubed who has been architecting, developing and integrating enterprise solutions throughout his whole career. Organizations that leverage high skillset have been able to rediscover and reuse their underutilized data via existing and emerging technologies such as: Microsoft BI Stack, Hadoop, NoSQL Databases, SharePoint, Hadoop, related toolsets and technologies.

He is the founder of Illustris, LLC and can be reached at [email protected].

Interesting aspects of his profession:

  • He has experience integrating multiple platforms and products
  • He has big data, data science certifications, R and Python certifications
  • He helps organizations gain a deeper understanding of, and value, their current investments in data and existing resources, turning them into useful sources of information
  • He has improved, salvaged, and architected projects by utilizing unique and innovative techniques

His hobbies are yoga and scuba diving.

 

 

 

Oleg Okun is a machine learning expert and the author/editor of four books, numerous journal articles, and conference papers. His career spans more than a quarter of a century. He was employed in both academia and industry in his mother country, Belarus, and abroad (Finland, Sweden, and Germany). His work experience includes document image analysis, fingerprint biometrics, bioinformatics, online/offline marketing analytics, credit scoring analytics, and text analytics.

He is interested in all aspects of distributed machine learning and the Internet of Things. Oleg currently lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my parents for everything that they have done for me.