Chapter 5. Storm High Availability and Failover
This chapter takes you to the next level in your journey through Storm, where we get you acquainted with the integration of Storm with other necessary components in the ecosystem. We will cover the concepts of high availability and reliability, practically.
This chapter is the next step in understanding the clustered mode setup of Storm and its associated components. We will understand the various configurations in Storm and Zookeeper and the concept behind them.
The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:
- Setting up RabbitMQ (single instance and clustered mode)
- Developing the AMQP spout to integrate Storm and RabbitMQ
- Creating a RabbitMQ feeder component
- Building high availability for RabbitMQ and the Storm cluster
- The Storm schedulers
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to set up and understand RabbitMQ and integrate Storm with RabbitMQ. Also, you will be able to test high availability and guaranteed processing...