Conduit

Conduit is an open-source data integration tool designed to synchronize data between production systems like databases, data warehouses, and cloud storage. It creates event-based pipelines that listen for changes in a source—such as a new database entry—and moves that data to a destination in real time. You can think of it as a flexible plumbing system for your data, ensuring information flows where it needs to go without manual intervention.

The tool works through a system of connectors. Out of the box, it supports popular datastores like PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, and Kafka. If you need to connect to something else, Conduit provides a simple SDK to build your own connector. You run it by downloading a single binary, and it fits into your existing workflow—you can deploy it as a standalone service or orchestrate it within your current infrastructure.

This tool is most useful for developers and data engineers who need to keep data consistent across different systems. For example, you could use it to automatically stream new customer records from a PostgreSQL database to a data warehouse for analysis, or to move files from an S3 bucket into a Kafka topic for event processing. It removes the complexity of building custom sync scripts, letting you focus on building applications that act on fresh data.