https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Data Access Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/write-ahead-intent-log/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Data+Access-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/write-ahead-intent-log/en/mediumimage/vinay-chella-akshat-goel-medium-1781177310280.jpg"/><p>Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain how Debezium hit limits under high load and share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) - a custom architecture that utilizes a dumb producer proxy and a smart consumer pattern to cleanly separate the intent from the state payload.</p> <i>By Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel</i> Platform Engineering Transcripts Data Access QCon San Francisco 2025 Architecture & Design AI, ML & Data Engineering presentation Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:13:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/write-ahead-intent-log/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Data+Access-presentations Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel 2026-06-18T13:13:00Z /presentations/write-ahead-intent-log/en