Heron Streaming: Fundamentals, Applications, Operations, and Insights

Huijun Wu is an engineer at Twitter, Inc. He has been working on the Heron project since the summer of 2016 when Twitter open-sourced the Heron code and is a founding member of Apache Heron (Incubating). Prior to this, he had worked for Microsoft, ARRIS, and Alcatel Lucent. He received a Ph.D. from the School of Computing Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.

Maosong Fu is the engineering manager for the Real-Time Compute Team at Twitter. Previously he was the technical lead for Heron at Twitter and had worked on various components of Heron, including Heron Instance, Metrics Manager, Heron Scheduler, etc. He is the author of several publications related to distributed systems, and has a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.