Storm Technical Preview Available Now! by Himanshu Bari.
From the post:
In October, we announced our intent to include and support Storm as part of Hortonworks Data Platform. With this commitment, we also outlined and proposed an open roadmap to improve the enterprise readiness of this key project. We are committed to doing this with a 100% open source approach and your feedback is immensely valuable in this process.
Today, we invite you to take a look at our Storm technical preview. This preview includes the latest release of Storm with instructions on how to install Storm on Hortonworks Sandbox and run a sample topology to familiarize yourself with the technology. This is the final pre-Apache release of Storm.
You know this but I wanted to emphasize how your participation in alpha/beta/candidate/preview releases benefits not only the community but yourself as well.
Bugs that are found and squashed now won’t bother you (or anyone else) later in production.
Not to mention you get to exercise your skills before using the software become routine and so does your use of it.
Enjoy the weekend!