Data engineering·Moving data out of the source
six teams each built their own connector to the same production database and the DBA noticed before anyone else did.
Fan-out ingestion
Also calledone-to-many delivery, shared source stream
One captured source feeding many independent consumers instead of each consumer extracting for itself. Consolidating on a single capture is usually right — one connection to the source, one interpretation of its quirks, one place to fix a bug — and it is why a shared change feed tends to become a platform team's product. The trade is that the shared feed becomes a coupling point, so its schema and its retention become everyone's problem at once.