I think it's important to know whether or not some form of parallelism
(other than throughput) is required, otherwise a standard webservice
seems sufficient for this use case.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Andrew Perepelytsya wrote:
> You can build request response type topologies via DRPC. However, unless we're
> talking about processing numerous pdfs at once - bad fit, IMO.
> 
> If there is parallelism required you might be better off with a custom yarn 
> app
> - looks like YAYA makes it tolerable top write.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Apr 28, 2014 2:41 AM, "Deepak Sharma" <deepakmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi All,
>     Just wanted to check if this can be valid storm use case.
>     I want to write 1 simple storm topology which can read pdf file , process
>     it , make some changes like convert it to doc and save the new file.
>     I know this can be easily done in batch mode using hadoop.But we want to 
> do
>     it in real time ,i.e. when the user demands it.
>     We already do it using some java api but it takes lot of time in all
>     conversions.
>     Can this be achieved in Storm?If yes , Is there any pointer to any 
> examples
>     similar to this use case?
> 
> 
>     --
>     Thanks
>     Deepak
>     www.bigdatabig.com
> 
> 
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