Lessons learned building a big data analytics engine, from proprietary to open source by Álvaro Santamaria & Joel Brunger After spending four years building a proprietary all-in-one streaming analytics engine for financial services, it became clear that open-source was starting to pull ahead. Alvaro will talk about the challenges of creating an IT operations solution for financial services; what to build, what not to build, and how to use open source tools to get past the infrastructure and focus on the business problems that matter.