From the webpage:
An Apache Storm topology that will, by design, trigger failures at run-time.
The purpose of this bolt-of-death topology is to help testing Storm cluster stability. It was originally created to identify the issues surrounding the Storm defects described at STORM-329 and STORM-404.
This reminds me of PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook by Chris Drake. Has it really been twenty (20) years since that came out?
If you need something a bit more up to date, Linux Kernel Crash Book: Everything you need to know by Igor Ljubuncic aka Dedoimedo, is available as both free and $ PDF files (to support the website).
Everyone needs a hobby, perhaps analyzing clusters and core dumps will be yours!
Enjoy!
I first saw storm-bolt-of-death in a tweet by Michael G. Noll.