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by nathanmarz 5503 days ago
It handles both cases. Storm can be used to asynchronously update databases in realtime in a scalable way (replacing traditional systems of queues and workers). Using Storm for Distributed RPC lets you do intense computations on Storm and return them to a waiting process.
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Ah yes, I should have read not scanned "3. Distributed RPC". Thanks.