Speaker(s): Sam Forester, CEO at Semblent Client: "We want you to build us a Big Data platform, capable of analysing billions of transactions in real time". Semblent: "Ummm, ok". Client: "We will only pay for three developers...". Semblent: "Errr, ok". Client: "....and by the way, you have 4 months". Semlent: "Owch.... ok". We did it... and here's how!