| Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use! |
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| The [Rationale page](https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale) on the wiki explains what Storm is and why it was built. The [video](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Storm) and [slides](http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/storm-distributed-and-faulttolerant-realtime-computation) of Storm's launch presentation are also good introductions to the project. |
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| Follow [@stormprocessor](https://twitter.com/stormprocessor) on Twitter for updates on the project. |
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| ## Documentation |
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| Documentation and tutorials can be found on the [Storm wiki](http://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki). |
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| ## Getting help |
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| Feel free to ask questions on Storm's mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/storm-user |
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| You can also come to the #storm-user room on [freenode](http://freenode.net/). You can usually find a Storm developer there to help you out. |
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| ## License |
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| The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the |
| Eclipse Public License 1.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php) |
| which can be found in the file LICENSE.html at the root of this distribution. |
| By using this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by |
| the terms of this license. |
| You must not remove this notice, or any other, from this software. |
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| ## Contributors |
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| * Nathan Marz ([@nathanmarz](http://twitter.com/nathanmarz)) |
| * Jason Jackson ([@jason_j](http://twitter.com/jason_j)) |
| * Christopher Bertels ([@bakkdoor](http://twitter.com/bakkdoor)) |
| * Michael Montano ([@michaelmontano](http://twitter.com/michaelmontano)) |
| * Dennis Zhuang ([@killme2008](https://github.com/killme2008)) |
| * Trevor Smith ([@trevorsummerssmith](https://github.com/trevorsummerssmith)) |
| * Ben Hughes ([@schleyfox](https://github.com/schleyfox)) |
| * Alexey Kachayev ([@kachayev](https://github.com/kachayev)) |
| * Haitao Yao ([@haitaoyao](https://github.com/haitaoyao)) |
| * Dan Dillinger ([@ddillinger](https://github.com/ddillinger)) |
| * Kang Xiao ([@xiaokang](https://github.com/xiaokang)) |
| * Gabriel Grant ([@gabrielgrant](https://github.com/gabrielgrant)) |
| * Travis Wellman ([@travisfw](https://github.com/travisfw)) |
| * Kasper Madsen ([@KasperMadsen](https://github.com/KasperMadsen)) |
| * Michael Cetrulo ([@git2samus](https://github.com/git2samus)) |
| * Thomas Jack ([@tomo](https://github.com/tomo)) |
| * Nicolas Yzet ([@nicoo](https://github.com/nicoo)) |
| * James Xu ([@xumingming](https://github.com/xumingming)) |
| * Fabian Neumann ([@hellp](https://github.com/hellp)) |
| * Soren Macbeth ([@sorenmacbeth](https://github.com/sorenmacbeth)) |
