Kartik Bhatnagar Author

Kartik Bhatnagar loves nature and likes to visit picturesque places. He is a technical architect in the big data analytics unit of Infosys. He is passionate about new technologies. He is leading the development work of Apache Storm and MarkLogic NoSQL for a leading bank. Kartik has a total 10 years of experience in software development for Fortune 500 companies in many countries. His expertise also includes the full Amazon Web Services (AWS) stack and modern open source libraries. He is active on the StackOverflow platform and is always eager to help young developers with new technologies. Kartik has also worked as a reviewer of a book called Elasticsearch Blueprints, Packt Publishing. In the future, he wants to work on predictive analytics. Barry Hart began using Storm in 2012 at AirSage. He quickly saw the potential of Storm while suffering from the limitations of the basic storm.py that it provides. In response, he developed Petrel, the first open source library for developing Storm applications in pure Python. He also contributed some bug fixes to the core Storm project. When it comes to development, Barry has worked on a little of everything: Windows printer drivers, logistics planning frameworks, OLAP engines for the retail industry, database engines, and big data workflows. Barry is currently an architect and senior Python/C++ developer at Pindrop Security, helping fight phone fraud in banking, insurance, investment, and other industries.