Organizations face challenges in managing and gaining insights from vast and constantly changing data streams across multiple systems, especially in scenarios requiring real-time decisions like financial trading. Change Data Capture (CDC) is a popular technique that addresses this by tracking database changes as they occur, streaming only those changes to reduce latency. Redpanda Connect offers a fresh alternative to Kafka Connect, providing flexibility, scalability, and simplicity in deploying data pipelines with its CDC connectors, which support popular databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud Spanner. Redpanda's approach includes parallel snapshotting, which allows for concurrent data reading, reducing the time required for snapshots and enhancing the performance of large-scale data migrations. The platform ensures reliable data delivery with features like logical replication, parallelized snapshots, and flexible checkpointing, making it a robust solution for real-time data streaming. Redpanda Connect supports various CDC use cases, including dashboard updates, database replication, real-time business workflow triggers, and AI/ML model training, offering both cloud-based and self-managed solutions with an Enterprise license.