diff --git a/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/pom.xml b/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/pom.xml
index 0d20e71..c14466b 100644
--- a/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/pom.xml
+++ b/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/pom.xml
@@ -311,6 +311,11 @@
             <version>5.0.0</version>
 <!--            <scope>test</scope>-->
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <version>2.15.2</version>  <!-- or the latest version -->
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
             <artifactId>spark-core_${version.spark.scala}</artifactId>
diff --git a/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/src/main/java/io/debezium/server/iceberg/rpc/OlakeRowsIngester.java b/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/src/main/java/io/debezium/server/iceberg/rpc/OlakeRowsIngester.java
index 6acf062..194af5b 100644
--- a/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/src/main/java/io/debezium/server/iceberg/rpc/OlakeRowsIngester.java
+++ b/writers/iceberg/debezium-server-iceberg-sink/src/main/java/io/debezium/server/iceberg/rpc/OlakeRowsIngester.java
@@ -9,25 +9,26 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.Table;
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.Catalog;
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
-
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-
 // This class is used to receive rows from the Olake Golang project and dump it into iceberg using prebuilt code here.
 @Dependent
 public class OlakeRowsIngester extends StringArrayServiceGrpc.StringArrayServiceImplBase {
-
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(OlakeRowsIngester.class);
 
     private String icebergNamespace = "public";
     Catalog icebergCatalog;
-
     private final IcebergTableOperator icebergTableOperator;
+    // Create a single reusable ObjectMapper instance
+    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
     public OlakeRowsIngester() {
         icebergTableOperator = new IcebergTableOperator();
@@ -45,56 +46,55 @@ public void setIcebergCatalog(Catalog icebergCatalog) {
         this.icebergCatalog = icebergCatalog;
     }
 
-
     @Override
     public void sendStringArray(Messaging.StringArrayRequest request, StreamObserver<Messaging.StringArrayResponse> responseObserver) {
+        String requestId = String.format("[Thread-%d-%d]", Thread.currentThread().getId(), System.nanoTime());
+        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         // Retrieve the array of strings from the request
         List<String> messages = request.getMessagesList();
 
+        long parsingStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         Map<String, List<RecordConverter>> result =
-                messages.stream()
+                messages.parallelStream() // Use parallel stream for concurrent processing
                         .map(message -> {
                             try {
-                                ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
-
                                 // Read the entire JSON message into a Map<String, Object>:
-                                Map<String, Object> messageMap =
-                                        objectMapper.readValue(message, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {
-                                        });
+                                Map<String, Object> messageMap = objectMapper.readValue(message, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {});
 
                                 // Get the destination table:
                                 String destinationTable = (String) messageMap.get("destination_table");
 
-                                // Convert the "key" part back to a JSON string:
-                                String keyString = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(messageMap.get("key"));
+                                // Get key and value objects directly without re-serializing
+                                Object key = messageMap.get("key");
+                                Object value = messageMap.get("value");
 
-                                // Convert the "value" part back to a JSON string:
-                                String valueString = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(messageMap.get("value"));
+                                // Convert to bytes only once
+                                byte[] keyBytes = key != null ? objectMapper.writeValueAsBytes(key) : null;
+                                byte[] valueBytes = objectMapper.writeValueAsBytes(value);
 
-                                // Now keyString and valueString contain the JSON for their respective fields.
-                                return new RecordConverter(destinationTable,
-                                        valueString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
-                                        keyString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
-                                // TODO: implement key being null
-                                // return new RecordConverter(destinationTable, value.getBytes(), key == null ? null : key.getBytes());
+                                return new RecordConverter(destinationTable, valueBytes, keyBytes);
                             } catch (Exception e) {
                                 throw new RuntimeException("Error parsing message as JSON", e);
                             }
                         })
                         .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(RecordConverter::destination));
+        LOGGER.info("{} Parsing messages took: {} ms", requestId, (System.currentTimeMillis() - parsingStartTime));
 
         // consume list of events for each destination table
+        long processingStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         for (Map.Entry<String, List<RecordConverter>> tableEvents : result.entrySet()) {
             Table icebergTable = this.loadIcebergTable(TableIdentifier.of(icebergNamespace, tableEvents.getKey()), tableEvents.getValue().get(0));
             icebergTableOperator.addToTable(icebergTable, tableEvents.getValue());
         }
+        LOGGER.info("{} Processing tables took: {} ms", requestId, (System.currentTimeMillis() - processingStartTime));
 
         // Build and send a response
         Messaging.StringArrayResponse response = Messaging.StringArrayResponse.newBuilder()
-                .setResult("Received " + messages.size() + " messages")
+                .setResult(requestId + " Received " + messages.size() + " messages")
                 .build();
         responseObserver.onNext(response);
         responseObserver.onCompleted();
+        LOGGER.info("{} Total time taken: {} ms", requestId, (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime));
     }
 
     public Table loadIcebergTable(TableIdentifier tableId, RecordConverter sampleEvent) {