Debezium in Action

"Debezium in Action"
"Debezium in Action" is an authoritative guide to mastering Change Data Capture (CDC) in modern data architectures, with a deep focus on the powerful, open-source Debezium platform. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of CDC fundamentals, the book explores essential concepts, practical use cases, and the technical challenges of scaling and maintaining consistency in fast-moving, distributed environments. Readers are introduced to the evolving CDC ecosystem and learn how Debezium positions itself among alternative solutions, building a solid foundation for the nuanced topics that follow.
The core of the book delves into the internal workings of Debezium-unpacking its architecture, connectors, event models, and fault tolerance strategies-before providing detailed, hands-on chapters for deploying Debezium with popular databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, and Oracle. Practical patterns for real-world integration cover deployment topologies, enterprise observability, performance optimization, robust backup and disaster recovery, and strategies for seamless zero-downtime upgrades and secure operation in production. Readers will also discover advanced techniques for event transformation, schema evolution, and idempotent replay, ensuring reliable data flow across dynamic environments.
"Debezium in Action" bridges theory and practice by presenting proven integration patterns with data lakes, warehouses, search engines, caches, and reactive microservices. In addition to thorough coverage of data governance, security, and regulatory compliance, the book offers best practices for running Debezium in the cloud, including Kubernetes-native deployments, serverless patterns, and cross-region scalability. Finally, advanced chapters tackle troubleshooting, performance tuning, and contribute insights into the project's open-source evolution and anticipated future directions, making this volume an indispensable reference for architects, engineers, and data professionals seeking robust and future-ready CDC solutions.