My co-workers have successfully dragged me kicking and screaming away from my work to write some articles, so first let me introduce myself: I’m Brian, the Service Delivery Data Architect for Aggregate Knowledge. Everything I do at AK is in service of one goal: allowing customers to gain deeper insights from more data in less time. My work encompasses but is not limited to designing message formats and data models to researching new data storage and transport technologies. I will be writing here from time to time about my experiences in helping transition the AK platform to a first class real-time data processing platform.