Two weeks ago, InfoWorld examined the two most popular real-time processing frameworks, Apache Storm and Apache Spark. Now we're going to take a much deeper look at Storm and walk through a basic Storm deployment for consuming Twitter messages and performing analytics on the Twitter stream.
To this end, we'll extract important keywords from individual tweets and calculate rolling metrics related to how actively a given keyword is being discussed. Plus, we'll do some lightweight sentiment analysis to determine the tenor of the discussion on a given topic. We'll also look at how Storm and XMPP combine nicely for extracting important "moment in time" events from a stream and for sending those events out as alerts.
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