Introduction
In this chapter, we give you some background about the components of InfoSphere Streams that can help you accelerate your time-to-value. This is meant to be a practitioner's guide with information about what is available and how to leverage it using examples and exercises that demonstrate practical real world application of the components. We introduce the concepts of accelerators and toolkits and where to find them. In addition, we introduce functional components that can also be used to get you started quickly. Subsequent chapters ...