39: Diving deeper into CDC with Ali Hamidi and Taron Foxworth of Meroxa

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Meroxa is a real-time data engineering managed platform (4:53)
• Use cases for CDC (6:20)
• Meroxa leverages open source tools to provide initial snapshots and start the CDC stream (12:29)
• Making the platform publicly available (14:14)
• What the Meroxa user experience looks like (16:10)
• Raising Series A funding (17:49)
• Easiest and most difficult data sources for CDC (20:23)
• The current state of open CDC (23:16)
• Expected latency when using CDC (29:56
• CDC, reverse ETL, and a focus on real-time (36:39)
• Are existing parts of the stack when Meroxa is adapted? (39:45)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.