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.

For more information:

• The official Heron documentation
• Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale (academic paper)
• Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale (YouTube video)
• Flying Faster with Twitter Heron (blog post)

Currently, we are working on ensuring that Heron is easy to install and run in a Mesos Cluster in AWS, Mesos/Aurora in AWS, and locally on a laptop. We will post updates as we progress.

The official documentation for Heron is currently not publicly available. You can, however, build and run the documentation locally. More information can be found in the documentation README.