39: Diving deeper into CDC with Ali Hamidi and Taron Foxworth of Meroxa
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have Meroxa back on the show, this time talking with co-founder and CTO Ali Hamidi and developer advocate Taron Foxworth. Together they discuss uses and implementations of change data capture, formulating open CDC guidelines, and debate the use of reverse ETL.
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Show Notes
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)
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