Why PostgreSQL people should care about Kafka and Debezium?

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Demo spins a single-node Kafka broker, Kafka Connect and Debezium, creates a topic named "beer", creates a Postgres table and inserts rows, and Debezium immediately emits a CDC.public.beer topic with JSON records showing before/after row state. Configuration uses the PGoutput plugin and requires wal_level=logical on Postgres. Built artifacts (GitHub repo and Terraform script) reproduce the setup, SMTs handle lightweight transformations, and MirrorMaker2 is suggested for cross-cluster DR.

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1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
2. 3:02Modern challenges for DBAs
3. 6:03Introduction to Apache Kafka
4. 9:33Kafka concepts and components
5. 12:58Kafka quick start and demo
6. 19:21Connecting databases with Debezium
7. 23:48CDC implementation demo
8. 29:42Advanced Kafka features
9. 36:08Getting started with automation
10. 39:03Conclusion and takeaways

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