Introducing the Storm technology stack

Before we jump into installing Storm, let's take a look at the technologies with which Storm and topologies are built.

Java and Clojure

Storm runs on the Java Virtual Machine and is written with a roughly equal combination of Java and Clojure. Storm's primary interfaces are defined in Java, with the core logic being implemented mostly in Clojure. In addition to JVM languages, Storm uses Python to implement the Storm executable. Beyond those languages, Storm is a highly polyglot-friendly technology due in part to the fact that a number of its interfaces use Apache Thrift.

The components of Storm topologies (spouts and bolts) can be written in virtually any programming language supported by the operating system ...

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