Hands-on with Twitter Heron

In Twitter's own words: (https://blog.twitter.com/2016/open-sourcing-twitter-heron)

Last year we announced (https://blog.twitter.com/2015/flying-faster-with-twitter-heron) the introduction of our new distributed stream computation system, Heron. Today we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing Heron under the permissive Apache v2.0 license. Heron is a proven, production-ready, real-time stream processing engine, which has been powering all of Twitter’s real-time analytics for over two years. Prior to Heron, we used Apache Storm (http://storm.apache.org/), which we open sourced in 2011 (https://blog.twitter.com/2011/storm-coming-more-details-and-plans-release). Heron features a wide array of architectural improvements and is backward compatible with the Storm ecosystem for seamless adoption.

This lab will be led by Karthik Ramasamy, engineering manager at Twitter for Storm and Heron. Karthik has been involved in the development and deployment of Twitter Heron technology.

0930 AM: Checkin, coffee, breakfast, meet someone new

1000 AM: Introduction to Heron

1045 AM: Break - more coffee, meet someone else new

1100 AM: Hands-on with Heron

1215 PM: Lunch

Pre-requisites for the Hands-on Session:

Mac users: None

Linux/Ubuntu users: Install libunwind8

For the lab, if you are interested in installing Heron, please follow the instructions at
http://twitter.github.io/heron/docs/getting-started/

If you are interested in contributing and would like to know more about how to compile, install and run heron, please follow the instructions at
http://twitter.github.io/heron/docs/developers/compiling/compiling/

This Meetup is sponsored by:

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This is the first hands-on lab organized by the Data Engineers Guild Meetup.

Thanks to Karthik Ramasamy and his team from Twitter for making this meetup possible and sponsoring lunch. Thanks to Uber for setting up the meetup space and providing snacks.