Oh easy questions: The code itself is nice and clean, take a look yourself (chosen randomly) [1][2] It's exciting because if you've ever done any real time pr

Oh easy questions: The code itself is nice and clean, take a look yourself (chosen randomly) [1][2] It's exciting because if you've ever done any real time processing of data streams at scale or even been daunted by the idea of it, and you read the wiki, it's clear storm is an exciting option. It does for Big Data Streams what Hadoop did for Big Data. Kafka is interesting, but they don't really address similar use cases. They are more complimentary and in fact storm has a spout implementation for kafka[3]. [1] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/clj/backtype/storm/daemon/supervisor.clj https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/clj/back... [2] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/jvm/backtype/storm/task/ShellBolt.java https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/jvm/back... [3] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-contrib/tree/master/storm-kafka https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-contrib/tree/master/stor...