Presentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:13:00 GMT

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.

By Vinay Chella, Akshat Goel

Presentation: Automating the Web with MCP: Infra that Doesn’t Break

Paul Klein — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:13:00 GMT

Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, stateful multi-tenancy and secure Chromium environments against remote code execution using Firecracker. He also shares how to leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to turn complex websites into accessible agentic tools.

By Paul Klein

InfoQ - QCon San Francisco 2025 - Presentations

Presentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

Presentation: Automating the Web with MCP: Infra that Doesn’t Break