Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, [is used by many companies](https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By), and is a lot of fun to use!

Storm has a website at [storm-project.net](http://storm-project.net). Follow [@stormprocessor](https://twitter.com/stormprocessor) on Twitter for updates on the project.

Documentation and tutorials can be found on the [Storm wiki](http://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki).

__NOTE:__ The google groups account storm-user@googlegroups.com is now officially deprecated in favor of the Apache-hosted user/dev mailing lists.

You can also come to the #storm-user room on [freenode](http://freenode.net/). You can usually find a Storm developer there to help you out.

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