Streaming Made Easy: Practical Postgres CDC with Streamkap + MotherDuck

​Your Postgres database is slowing down. Analytical queries time out. Streaming sounds like the fix until you try to implement it.

​Jacob Matson (MotherDuck) and Paul Dudley (Streamkap) will talk through the actual tradeoffs of Postgres CDC: when you need it, when you don't, and what tends to break (WAL logs, replication slots, schema changes mid-pipeline). Paul's framing: most of his customers don't come in asking for streaming. They come in asking how they can speed things up.

​Live demo: a full Postgres to MotherDuck pipeline via Streamkap. They'll kick it off with Claude at the start and check back at the end to see if it survived.

​For data engineers hitting Postgres performance limits who aren't sure streaming is worth the complexity.