From Full Sync to Real‑Time CDC: Building Scalable Order Data Pipelines
An e‑commerce junior developer tackles the challenge of regularly syncing order data to a data warehouse, evolving from naïve full‑table copies to incremental sync, batch processing, cursor‑based pagination, performance tuning, and finally a real‑time CDC‑plus‑message‑queue architecture, while addressing reliability, ordering, and scaling issues.
