Github user nielsbasjes commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/275#issuecomment-60935570
The execute of the KafkaBolt puts the tuple into Kafka as a message.
What I ran into is that the Ticks were put into Kafka as messages too.
My consumers of this Kafka queue got really upset (lots of deserialisation
exceptions) over these ticks.
I'll update the example code as you indicated.
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