Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation

Preface

The demand for timely, actionable information is pushing software systems to process an increasing amount of data in a decreasing amount of time. Additionally, as the number of connected devices increases and as these devices are applied to a broadening spectrum of industries, that demand is becoming increasingly pervasive. Traditional enterprise operational systems are being forced to operate on scales of data that were originally associated only with Internet-scale companies. This monumental shift is forcing the collapse of more traditional architectures and approaches that separated online transactional systems and offline analysis. Instead, people are reimagining what it means to extract information from data. Frameworks and infrastructure ...