Kiril Piskunov

Surviving unbounded numerics, missing SMTs, and XStream configuration hell. We are often promised that Change Data Capture (CDC) is a solved problem: "Just install the Debezium connector, point it at Oracle, and stream." In reality, connecting Debezium to Oracle XStream is not the end of the journey, it is merely the start of a complex engineering challenge. We will share why without a rigorous platform around it, a raw XStream implementation often leads to production outages, data corruption via type mismatches, and operational gaps. In this session, we will expose the missing pieces required to turn a raw Debezium connector into a resilient data pipeline. We will move beyond "Hello World" examples and dissect the painful realities of Oracle CDC. We will frame this discussion around our own architectural evolution: sharing the scars from our v1, the decisions that defined our current production v2, and the architectural features of a hypothetical v3 that we are still chasing. We’ll go deep on: - The Type System Minefield: How to handle Oracle’s "Unbounded Numerics" and complex timestamps without crashing your consumers or losing precision (and why default SMTs aren't enough) -…