Storm Applied

Preface

At TheLadders, we’ve been using Storm since it was introduced to the world (version 0.5.x). In those early days, we implemented solutions with Storm that supported noncritical business processes. Our Storm cluster ran uninterrupted for a long time and “just worked.” Little attention was paid to this cluster, as it never really had any problems. It wasn’t until we started identifying more business cases where Storm was a good fit that we started to experience problems. Contention for resources in production, not having a great understanding of how things were working under the covers, sub-optimal performance, and a lack of visibility into the overall health of the system were all issues we struggled with.

This prompted us to focus a ...