Streamparse: Pythonic processing of real-time data streams using Apache Storm

The submitter included a link to a launch announcement, but the text field doesn't get posted when there's a url. Here's the link: http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2014/05/04/streamparse

so i know storm already supported python bolts/spouts. I'm sure there is value added here but I would love an explanation/example of why this is better than simply implementing my topology on top of storm by it self.

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