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title: S4 0.6.0

This is the documentation for S4 0.6.0. For previous versions, please refer to the wiki

S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous, unbounded streams of data.

Getting Started

• You may start with an overview of the platform
• Then follow a walkthrough for an hands-on introduction
• Complement with a look at a topic trending application using Twitter data
• And here are some tips to ease the development process

Configuration

• Customize the platform and pass configuration parameters
• Add application dependencies
• Dispatch events within an application and between applications
• Inject events into S4 applications

Running S4

• Commands for creating, running and managing applications
• Monitor the system

Features

• Details about fault tolerance

Troubleshooting

• Recommended practices
• Try the FAQ
• Try the mailing lists

Resources

• Questions can be asked through the mailing lists
• The source code is available through git, here are instructions for fetching the code.
• A nice set of slides was used for a presentation at Stanford in November 2011.
• The driving ideas are detailed in a conference publication from KDCloud'11
• You can also watch the video of a presentation given at LinkedIn.