Distruptive Tag

Put On Your Streaming Shoes

The Kick-Off Meeting

It went something along the lines of:

• Client: "We have a new requirement for you.."
• Shiners: "Shoot.."
• Client: "We'd like you to come up a solution that can insert 2 million rows per hour into a database and be able to deliver real-time analytics and some have animated charts visualising it. And, it should go without saying, that it needs to be scalable so we can ramp up to 100 million per hour."
• Shiners: [inaudible]
• Client: "Sorry, what was that?"
• Shiners: [inaudible]
• Client: "You'll have to speak up guys.."
• Shiners: "Give us 6 weeks"

We delivered it less than 4.