Slides from a Heron tech talk by Karthik Ramasamy, Maosong Fu and Bill Graham at the Hive in August 2016. The presentation includes an overview of the Heron architecture, how Heron is used at Twitter and how to install Heron and run an example topology. A video of the talk can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvmeoJCZKU.