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Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!

Read these first

• Rationale
• Tutorial
• Setting up development environment
• Creating a new Storm project

Getting help

Feel free to ask questions on Storm's mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/storm-user

You can also come to the #storm-user room on freenode. You can usually find a Storm developer there to help you out.

Related projects

• storm-contrib
• storm-deploy: One click deploys for Storm clusters on AWS
• Spout implementations
• DSLs and multilang adapters
• Serializers

Contributing to Storm

• Contributing to Storm
• Project ideas

Documentation

Basics

• Javadoc
• Concepts
• Configuration
• Guaranteeing message processing
• Fault-tolerance
• Command line client

Setup and deploying

• Setting up a Storm cluster
• Troubleshooting
• Upgrading an existing Storm cluster
• Running topologies on a production cluster
• Local mode
• Maven

Intermediate

• Serialization
• Common patterns
• Clojure DSL
• Using non-JVM languages with Storm
• Distributed RPC
• Transactional topologies
• Kestrel and Storm
• Direct groupings
• Hooks

Advanced

• Defining a non-JVM language DSL for Storm
• Multilang protocol (how to provide support for another language)
• Implementation docs