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Kafka

2 posts on kafka.

• // data platform

  Mongo → StarRocks

  ms-latency dashboards

  2026-04-28 · 7 min · DATA PLATFORMS

  Why we replaced analytics on Mongo with StarRocks

  What broke when analytical queries shared a tenant cluster with OLTP — and what moving to a real OLAP engine actually gave us.

  • StarRocks
  • Kafka
  • Analytics
• // distributed systems

  Mongo → Kafka via Debezium

  oplog CDC at multi-tenant scale

  2026-03-20 · 11 min · DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

  Building a CDC pipeline with Debezium — without breaking the source

  Lessons from tailing a multi-tenant Mongo oplog into Kafka without putting the source database under more load than it already had.

  • Debezium
  • Kafka
  • Mongo