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1 nathan marz storm-2012-09-19-Storm's 1st birthday
Introduction: Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to say the least. Here's some of the exciting stuff that's happened over the past year: 27 companies have publicized that they're using Storm in production . I know of at least a few more companies using it that haven't published anything yet. O'Reilly published a book on Storm. The Storm mailing list has over 1300 members, with over 500 messages per month. The @stormprocessor account has over 1200 followers. More than 4000 people have starred the project on Github . There's a regular Storm meetup in the Bay Area with over 230 members. I've also seen lots of Storm-focused meetups happen all over the world over the past year. 29 people all over the world have contributed to the codebase We released Trident , a high level abstraction for realtime computation, that is a major leap forward in what's possible in realtime. Libraries have been released integrating Stor
2 nathan marz storm-2012-02-06-Suffering-oriented programming
Introduction: Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a startup ?" (Storm is a realtime computation system). I can see how from an outsider's perspective investing in such a massive project seems extremely risky for a startup. From my perspective, though, building Storm wasn't risky at all. It was challenging, but not risky. I follow a style of development that greatly reduces the risk of big projects like Storm. I call this style "suffering-oriented programming." Suffering-oriented programming can be summarized like so: don't build technology unless you feel the pain of not having it. It applies to the big, architectural decisions as well as the smaller everyday programming decisions. Suffering-oriented programming greatly reduces risk by ensuring that you're always working on something important, and it ensures that you are well-versed in a problem space before attempting a large investment. I ha
3 nathan marz storm-2012-01-09-Early access edition of my book is available
Introduction: The early access edition of my book Big Data: principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems is now available from Manning! I've been working on this book for quite some time, and I'm excited to have it out there and start getting some feedback. The interest in the book has already been overwhelming, and I've been answering questions about it on Hacker News .