Presentation: Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service

Alina Krasavina — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:07:00 GMT

Alina Krasavina explains how Delivery Hero successfully deprecated Google Analytics and migrated to an internal user tracking platform. She discusses how a simplistic, highly scalable architecture allowed them to handle 10 times more load while capturing 97% of tracking data.

By Alina Krasavina

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

InfoQ - Database - Presentations

Presentation: Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service

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