Snowflake CDC and File-Processing Infrastructure for Hospital Operations
Near-real-time CDC capture from PostgreSQL into Snowflake, plus high-volume file-processing infrastructure, for a company that manages hospital patient flow, capacity, and throughput — HIPAA-bound and operationally critical.
Hospital operations software lives or dies on data freshness — patient flow and capacity decisions cannot run on yesterday’s snapshot. This engagement built near-real-time CDC and file-processing infrastructure on Snowflake for a healthcare operations company, as an independent consulting engagement through Aware Systems LLC.
The full write-up will cover:
- PostgreSQL CDC capture patterns for Snowflake — logical replication realities, ordering, and recovery
- Near-real-time file processing alongside streaming change capture
- What HIPAA constraints mean for pipeline design in practice
- Designing for handoff: infrastructure a client team can operate without the consultant who built it
Full case study coming soon.