Design CDC from a customer's Oracle ERP into the lakehouse, including deletes and schema evolution.
The integration question that decides data-platform FDE offers. Log-based vs query-based capture, why deletes break naive designs, the apply-merge that keeps order, and the snapshot step everyone forgets.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
The integration question that decides data-platform FDE offers. Log-based vs query-based capture, why deletes break naive designs, the apply-merge that keeps order, and the snapshot step everyone forgets.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
