It is a fair criticism of the state of Storm documentation and examples. The book Storm Applied by Manning details tons of Storm usage examples, ranging from the technically advanced to the mundane. I recommend that book to learn more about real world usage (disclosure: I wrote the foreword).
Also, my team is working on an open source example project called birding that uses streamparse and pykafka together to build filtered firehose tweet streams from Twitter's public API. We think this will illustrate both Storm and Kafka really well, and be beyond the typical word count examples. See https://github.com/Parsely/birding to track that effort.
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It is a fair criticism of the state of Storm documentation and examples. The book Storm Applied by Manning details tons of Storm usage examples, ranging from the technically advanced to the mundane. I recommend that book to learn more about real world usage (disclosure: I wrote the foreword).
Also, my team is working on an open source example project called birding that uses streamparse and pykafka together to build filtered firehose tweet streams from Twitter's public API. We think this will illustrate both Storm and Kafka really well, and be beyond the typical word count examples. See https://github.com/Parsely/birding to track that effort.