[mattfrommars]

I'm not ultra tech savvy. Just getting into programming but I know bits and pieces. What the guy made, is it superior to metatrader 5 or 4? How is it different from them. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 as a default machine. Also why is a huge cluster, Amazon servers required? Isn't it possible to run it on a home computer? I don't see any heavy computation. From what I understood, it harvests data from sources and displays them in a plot form.

[pas]

And it's able to go and get any historic data. It can scale up to thousands of machines (petabytes range), it can scale up to simultaneously ingest thousands of data flows, and so on, and continue to do whatever you want based on event processing (Storm can watch for any strange rules you can come up and fire off events [triggers] to an other component to execute trades), without stopping the flow for even a second.

It's a proof of concept in distributed systems engineering.