ETL/CDC: Guidance, Layout / Dissolve walls of links

docs/_include/links.md

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+<!-- markdownlint-disable MD053 -->
+
 [Amazon DynamoDB Streams]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Streams.html
 [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/introduction.html
+[Apache Airflow]: https://airflow.apache.org/
+[Astronomer]: https://www.astronomer.io/
 [AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)]: https://aws.amazon.com/dms/
 [AWS DMS Integration with CrateDB]: https://cratedb-toolkit.readthedocs.io/io/dms/
+[AWS Lambda]: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
 [BM25]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
 [cloud-datashader-colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/crate/cratedb-examples/blob/amo/cloud-datashader/topic/timeseries/explore/cloud-datashader.ipynb
 [cloud-datashader-github]: https://github.com/crate/cratedb-examples/blob/amo/cloud-datashader/topic/timeseries/explore/cloud-datashader.ipynb
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 [dask-weather-data-github]: https://github.com/crate/cratedb-examples/blob/main/topic/timeseries/dask-weather-data-import.ipynb
 [Datashader]: https://datashader.org/
 [Dynamic Database Schemas]: https://cratedb.com/product/features/dynamic-schemas
-[DynamoDB CDC Relay]: https://cratedb-toolkit.readthedocs.io/io/dynamodb/cdc.html
-[DynamoDB CDC Relay with AWS Lambda]: https://cratedb-toolkit.readthedocs.io/io/dynamodb/cdc-lambda.html
-[DynamoDB Table Loader]: https://cratedb-toolkit.readthedocs.io/io/dynamodb/loader.html
+[DynamoDB]: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
+[DynamoDB CDC Relay]: inv:ctk:*:label#dynamodb-cdc
+[DynamoDB CDC Relay with AWS Lambda]: inv:ctk:*:doc#io/dynamodb/cdc-lambda
+[DynamoDB Table Loader]: inv:ctk:*:label#dynamodb-loader
 [Executable stack with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and CrateDB]: https://github.com/crate/cratedb-examples/tree/main/framework/flink/kafka-jdbcsink-java
 [Geospatial Data Model]: https://cratedb.com/data-model/geospatial
 [Geospatial Database]: https://cratedb.com/geospatial-spatial-database

docs/_include/styles.html

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   height: 0;
 }
 
+/* On tiled link overview index pages, give ul/li elements more space */
+.ul-li-wide ul li {
+  margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+
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docs/connect/drivers.md

@@ -359,6 +359,6 @@ Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord adapter for CrateDB.
 
 
 ```{tip}
-Please visit the :ref:`build-status` page for an overview about the integration
+Please visit the {ref}`build-status` page for an overview about the integration
 status of the client drivers listed above, and more.
 ```

docs/connect/index.md

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 :::{include} /_include/links.md
 :::
+:::{include} /_include/styles.html
+:::
 
 :::::{grid}
 :padding: 0
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ protocol.
 :gutter: 2
 
 ::::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`link;2em` How to connect
+:class-body: ul-li-wide
 - {ref}`connect-configure`
 
   To connect to CrateDB, your application or driver needs to be configured
@@ -87,7 +90,7 @@ protocol.
 Database connectivity options and tools.
 ::::
 
-::::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`not_started;2em` How to use database drivers
+::::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`link;2em` How to connect
 - {ref}`connect-java`
 - {ref}`connect-javascript`
 - {ref}`connect-php`

docs/ingest/cdc/index.md

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 :::
 
 :::{div}
-CrateDB provides many options to connect and integrate with third-party
+Options to connect and integrate CrateDB with third-party
 CDC applications, mostly using [CrateDB's PostgreSQL interface].
 CrateDB also provides native adapter components to leverage advanced
 features.
 
-This documentation section lists corresponding CDC applications and
-frameworks which can be used together with CrateDB, and outlines how
-to use them optimally.
-Please also take a look at support for {ref}`generic ETL <etl>` solutions.
+This documentation section lists CDC applications,
+frameworks, and solutions, which can be used together with CrateDB,
+and outlines how to use them optimally.
+Additionally, see support for {ref}`generic ETL <etl>` solutions.
 :::
 
-- {ref}`aws-dms`
-- {ref}`aws-dynamodb`
-- {ref}`aws-kinesis`
-- {ref}`debezium`
-- {ref}`mongodb`
-- {ref}`streamsets`
+
+## Connectors
+
+Native and specialized connectors for CrateDB, both managed and unmanaged.
+
+:::::{grid} 1
+:gutter: 2
+
+::::{grid-item-card} Amazon DynamoDB
+:link: aws-dynamodb
+:link-type: ref
+Load data from DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service provided by
+Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is designed for high-performance, scalable
+applications and offers key-value and document data structures.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} Amazon Kinesis
+:link: aws-kinesis
+:link-type: ref
+Load data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a serverless streaming data service
+that simplifies the capture, processing, and storage of data streams at any scale.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} MongoDB
+:link: mongodb
+:link-type: ref
+Load data from MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas, a document database, self-hosted
+or multi-cloud.
+::::
+
+:::::
+
+
+## Platforms
+
+Support for data integration frameworks and platforms, both managed and unmanaged.
+
+:::::{grid} 1
+:gutter: 2
+
+::::{grid-item-card} AWS DMS
+:link: aws-dms
+:link-type: ref
+Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), a managed migration and replication
+service that helps move your database and analytics workloads between different
+kinds of databases.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} Debezium
+:link: debezium
+:link-type: ref
+Use Debezium, an open source distributed platform for change data capture for
+loading data into CrateDB.
+It is used as a building block by a number of downstream third-party projects and products.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} Estuary
+:link: estuary
+:link-type: ref
+Use Estuary Flow, a managed, real-time, reliable change data capture (CDC) solution,
+to load data into CrateDB.
+It combines agentless CDC, zero-code pipelines, and enterprise-grade governance to
+simplify data integration.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} RisingWave
+:link: risingwave
+:link-type: ref
+Use RisingWave, a stream processing and management platform, to load data into CrateDB.
+It provides a Postgres-compatible SQL interface, like CrateDB, and a DataFrame-style
+Python interface. It is available for on-premises and as a managed service.
+::::
+
+::::{grid-item-card} StreamSets
+:link: streamsets
+:link-type: ref
+Use the StreamSets Data Collector Engine to ingest and transform data from many
+sources into CrateDB. It runs on-premises or in any cloud.
+::::
+
+:::::