Apache Takes Storm Into Incubation by Isaac Lopez.
From the post:
Get used to saying it: “Apache Storm.”
On Wednesday night, Doug Cutting, Director for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), announced that the organization will be adding the distributed real time computation system known as Storm as the foundations newest Incubator podling.
Storm was created by BackType lead engineer, Nathan Marz in early 2011, before the software (along with the entire company) was acquired by Twitter. At Twitter, Storm became the back bone of the social giant’s web analytics framework, tracking every click happening within the rapidly-expanding Twittersphere. The Blue Bird also uses Storm as part of its “What’s Trending” widget.
In September of 2011, Marz announced that Storm would be released into open source, where it has enjoyed a great deal of success, getting used by such companies as Groupon, Yahoo!, InfoChimps, NaviSite, Nodeable, Ooyala, The Weather Channel, and more.
In case you don’t know Storm:
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!
The Rationale page on the wiki explains what Storm is and why it was built. This presentation is also a good introduction to the project.
Storm has a website at storm-project.net. Follow @stormprocessor on Twitter for updates on the project. (From the Storm Github page.)
When the Apache pages for Storm are posted I will update this post.