I’m trying to figure out the best way to send data through web services to an integration platform listener endpoint. My specific scenario involves monitoring changes in an employee database table. Whenever certain columns get modified, I need to transmit the complete record information to the external service.
I’ve been researching different approaches but I’m not sure which tool would work best for this kind of real-time data synchronization. Has anyone implemented something similar before? I’m particularly interested in hearing about which development tools or integration methods you found most reliable for this type of push notification setup.
Any advice on the technical implementation would be really helpful. Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!
CDC tools like Debezium are perfect for this. I used it to sync employee records between our HRMS and downstream systems. CDC monitors transaction logs instead of triggers, so there’s zero performance hit on your main database. Changes get captured in real-time and streamed through Kafka to your integration platform. You get complete before/after states plus event replay if things break. Setup’s more work than webhooks, but the reliability and scaling are worth it. We’ve run this for 2+ years with barely any issues, even when HR does massive bulk updates. Just make sure your integration platform handles the event stream format correctly.
I built something almost identical last year with database triggers and a message queue. Here’s what I learned the hard way: don’t make HTTP calls directly from triggers. It’ll kill your performance if the external service is slow or goes down. What actually worked was having the trigger just drop change notifications into a queue table. Then I ran a separate service that grabbed these notifications and processed them async. Way better error handling, built-in retries, and no more database locks screwing up normal operations. I used basic polling - checked for new records every few seconds and batched the HTTP requests when I could. Night and day difference in reliability once I separated the database changes from the actual HTTP calls. Definitely consider this approach if you’ve got heavy transaction volume on that employee database.
Skip the fancy tools if you want something simple that works. I built this exact thing using REST API calls with a lightweight monitoring service.
I created a small background service that polls the database every 30 seconds for changed records. Yeah polling sounds old school but it’s bulletproof. I track the last_modified timestamp and grab anything newer.
The service batches up to 50 records per HTTP request to the integration platform. If a request fails, those records go into a retry table with exponential backoff. Dead simple.
I’ve been running this for 3 years across multiple projects. Never had data loss and it handles our 10k employee database updates without breaking a sweat. Plus debugging is easy since everything’s straightforward.
Sure it’s not real-time like triggers or CDC streams, but 30 second delays are fine for HR data sync. Sometimes boring solutions are the best.
hey, webhooks work like magic for this! just set a trigger on your db to catch the updates and POST the data. i’ve done it with Postgres and it was super smooth for my work. you’ll prob. love it too!