Real-time Change Data Capture with Redpanda Connect and MySQL

Change Data Capture (CDC) is a process that allows systems to react to real-time data changes in a database, offering an efficient alternative to traditional polling methods. This tutorial demonstrates how to establish a CDC pipeline using Redpanda Connect and MySQL, enabling the streaming of row-level changes as events without polling. The tutorial details the setup process, including prerequisites like Docker and a Redpanda Connect enterprise license, and provides a step-by-step guide to creating and configuring the necessary services, such as Redpanda, Redpanda Connect, and MySQL with binary logging enabled. The pipeline captures and processes changes in the database, streams them as events to Redpanda topics, and allows users to consume these events, showcasing how changes like inserts, updates, and deletions in the MySQL database are captured and reflected in real time. The tutorial also highlights Redpanda's compatibility with Kafka APIs and encourages exploration of CDC streams with other databases supported by Redpanda Connect, emphasizing the benefits of CDC for real-time analytics, seamless integrations, and system migrations.

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