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Learn Debezium - Pre-Requisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before touching Debezium, you need to master relational database concepts, transaction logs, data streaming, and Apache Kafka. In this episode you'll set up a Docker environment, run Kafka in KRaft mode and Kafka Connect, then verify your first Debezium runtime.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - History, Background & Why CDC
This episode explores the history and background behind the birth of Debezium, from the evolution of batch ETL toward change data capture, the Red Hat journey to Apache, as well as a comparison of CDC with polling and batch, along with the real use cases that motivated it.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Core Concepts & Debezium Architecture
This episode dissects the Debezium architecture from connectors, Kafka Connect, and Kafka topics, to how Debezium reads database change logs, offset, heartbeat, and snapshot mechanisms, as well as their relationship to the schema registry and payload formats.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Installation & Setting Up Connectors
This episode guides you through running Kafka Connect and Debezium with Docker, registering connectors for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and SQL Server, arranging database connections with user privileges, then verifying the output topics and your first CDC messages.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Snapshot, Streaming, and Offset Management
This episode dissects the difference between the initial snapshot and change streaming, how offsets are stored and recovered on restart, snapshot chunking and initial data load management, as well as how Debezium handles database schema changes.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Payload Format & Schema Evolution
This episode dissects the anatomy of a Debezium event — before, after, source, op, and ts_ms — then compares the JSON, Avro, and Protobuf payload formats, integration with the schema registry for schema evolution, as well as field mapping and schema conversion best practices.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Filtering, Routing, & Topic Design
This episode covers include and exclude settings for tables and databases, routing events to different topics, topic naming and partitioning strategies, and using transforms such as RegexRouter and Filter for custom routing logic.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Monitoring, Handling Failures, & Debugging
This episode covers monitoring connectors, offsets, and lag, reading logs, connector status, and error handling, dealing with record parsing errors, schema mismatches, and unavailable databases, then building alerts for connector failures.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Integration with Consumers & Sinks
This episode covers connecting CDC events to Kafka consumers and stream processors, using Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Flink, Spark, and database sinks, streaming data to data lakes and data warehouses, plus the materialized view and analytics use cases.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Debezium - Schema Registry & Data Contracts
This episode covers building data contracts for event schemas, managing schema versioning and compatibility rules, handling schema evolution on Debezium payloads, and using Avro and Protobuf for consumer validation.
August 10, 2026
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