Author: Andrew Sellers

Experienced technology leaders know that adopting a new technology can be risky. Often, we are unable to distinguish between those investments that will be transformational and those that won’t be worthwhile. This post examines how one can decide if event streaming makes sense for them.

Change data capture (CDC) converts all the changes that occur inside your database into events and publishes them to an event stream. You can then use these events to power analytics, drive operational use cases, hydrate databases, and more. The pattern is enjoying wider adoption than ever before.

Over the last decade, there’s been a massive movement toward digitization. Enterprises are defining their business models, products, and services to innovate, thrive, and compete by being able to quickly discover, understand, and apply their data assets to power real-time use cases.