The home page has a 'Why use Storm' section that you might find helpful: https://storm.apache.org/index.html https://storm.apache.org/index.html For example, T

The home page has a 'Why use Storm' section that you might find helpful: https://storm.apache.org/index.html https://storm.apache.org/index.html For example, Twitter used to use Storm to process analytics on tweet data. They now use Heron. [1] Storm is valuable when your data is constantly being generated as a stream, on which you would like to perform processing immediately. I've previously also used Storm's distributed RPC cluster, where I fire off a task that I would like processed in the background and wait for the response to arrive. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/flying-faster-with-twitter-heron https://blog.twitter.com/2015/flying-faster-with-twitter-her...