Before you start plugging lots of systems together to solve this problem with a gaint hot mess, take a look at VoltDB. It basically is the system the article describes, but faster, more integrated and tested as a whole. It&#x27;ll save you the multi-year discovery fun-tour it may take to realize that Storm punts on a lot of the more nuanced problems a system like this needs to solve. Just ask Twitter.<p>Disclosure, I&#x27;m one of the original VoltDB engineers. Apologies for the rant.