P. Taylor Goetz
About the Authors
P. Taylor Goetz is an Apache Storm committer and release manager and has been involved with the usage and development of Storm since it was first released as open source in October of 2011. As an active contributor to the Storm user community, Taylor leads a number of open source projects that enable enterprises to integrate Storm into heterogeneous infrastructure.
Presently, he works at Hortonworks where he leads the integration of Storm into Hortonworks Data Platform ( HDP ). Prior to joining Hortonworks, he worked at Health Market Science where he led the integration of Storm into HMS' next generation Master Data Management platform with technologies including Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, and the Titan graph database.
I would like to thank my amazing wife, children, family, and friends whose love, support, and sacrifices made this book possible. I owe you all a debt of gratitude.
Brian O'Neill is a husband, hacker, hiker, and kayaker. He is a fisherman and father as well as big data believer, innovator, and distributed computing dreamer.
He has been a technology leader for over 15 years and is recognized as an authority on big data. He has experience as an architect in a wide variety of settings, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He believes in open source and contributes to numerous projects. He leads projects that extend Cassandra and integrate the database with indexing engines, distributed processing frameworks, and analytics engines. He won InfoWorld's Technology Leadership award in 2013. He authored the Dzone reference card on Cassandra and was selected as a Datastax Cassandra MVP in 2012 and 2013.
In the past, he has contributed to expert groups within the Java Community Process ( JCP ) and has patents in artificial intelligence and context-based discovery. He is proud to hold a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Presently, Brian is Chief Technology Officer for Health Market Science ( HMS ), where he heads the development of their big data platform focused on data management and analysis for the healthcare space. The platform is powered by Storm and Cassandra and delivers real-time data management and analytics as a service.
For my family...To my wife Lisa, We put our faith in the wind. And our mast has carried us to the clouds. Rooted to the earth by our children, and fastened to the bedrock of those that have gone before us, our hands are ever entwined by the fabric of our family. Without all of you, this ink would never have met this page.
About the Reviewers
VincentGijsen is essentially a people's person, and he is passionate about any stuff related to technology. His background and area of interest broadly lies in Embedded Systems Engineering and Information Science. He started his career at a marketing -research company as an IT Manager. After that, he started his own company, and specialized in VOIP communications. Currently, he works at ScienceRockstars, a start-up, which is all about persuasive profiling and large data. In his spare time, he likes to get his hands dirty with lasers, quad-copters, eBay purchases, hacking stuff, and beers.
Sonal Raj is a geek, a "Pythonista", and a technology enthusiast. He is the founder and Executive Head at Enfoss. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He was a Research Fellow at SERC, IISc Bangalore, and he pursued projects on distributed computing and real-time operations. He also worked as an intern at HCL Infosystems, Delhi.
He has given talks at PyCon India on Storm and Neo4J and has published articles and research papers in leading magazines and international journals.
James Xu is a committer of Apache Storm and a Java/Clojure programmer working in e-commerce. He is passionate about new technologies such as Storm and Clojure. He works in Alibaba Group, which is the leading e-ecommerce platform in China.
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