Storm Applied

Chapter 2. Core Storm concepts

This chapter covers

• Core Storm concepts and terminology
• Basic code for your first Storm project

The core concepts in Storm are simple once you understand them, but this understanding can be hard to come by. Encountering a description of “executors” and “tasks” on your first day can be hard to understand. There are just too many concepts you need to hold in your head at one time. In this book, we’ll introduce concepts in a progressive fashion and try to minimize the number of concepts you need to think about at one time. This approach will often mean that an explanation isn’t entirely “true,” but it’ll be accurate enough at that point in your journey. As you slowly pick up on different pieces of the puzzle, ...