Hi, regarding ordering issue there are ways to avoid strict dependency on processing order as discussed in this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzqIzXhTaA by Erik Onnen from Urban Airship.
On 1 January 2014 18:05, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have briefly looked at storm, but just a quick question, storm seems to > have all these workers but they way it seems to me the order in which these > items are processed off the queue is very random correct? > > In my use case order is very important so using something like storm would > not be suitable right? > > I first learned of kafka + storm based on a post by someone from loggly, > but loggly can process items randomly I would imagine because at the end of > the day each log item is timestamped so after it is processed and indexed > things would be fine. > > But if your use case is such that processing message#123 before message#122 > would have side effects that you can't use something like storm.
