What is Heron?
Heron is realtime analytics platform developed by Twitter. It is the direct successor of Apache Storm, built to be backwards compatible with Storm's topology API but with a wide array of architectural improvements.
Heron is a tool in the Stream Processing category of a tech stack.
Heron is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Heron's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Heron?
Companies
Developers
20 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Heron.
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Heron Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Heron?
Apache Flink
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Pelican
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JavaScript
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.