How one team shrunk its change-data-capture bill 20x, from $3,000 to $150
A hands-on case study of turning a runaway change-data-capture bill into a rounding error. The team found most of the cost came from streaming every change of every table through expensive ingest pipelines, then re-platformed the hot path so only material changes moved. $3,000 a month became $150, and they walked away with a reusable playbook for anyone sizing CDC infrastructure. Concrete numbers, architecture trade-offs, no vapor.