Episode 06:

Data Council Week: All About Debezium and Change Data Capture with Gunnar Morling of Decodable

April 27, 2023

This week on The Data Stack Show, we have a special edition as we recorded a series of bonus episodes live at Data Council in Austin, Texas. In this episode, Brooks and Kostas chat with Gunnar Morling, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Decodable. During the episode, Gunnar talks about his time at Red Hat, including spearheading the Debezium project, a platform for change data capture (CDC). Topics in this conversation include the processes of Debezium, how to build a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces, open-sourced CDC projects, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Gunner’s background in data (0:32)
  • Setting the vision in early days of Red Hat and spearheading Debezium (6:20)
  • Replication of data in Debezium (9:47)
  • The patterns and processes of Debezium (16:21)
  • Debezium working with Kafka (19:03)
  • Building a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces (24:09)
  • The importance of documentation in open-sourced projects (27:59)
  • Debezium’s vision moving forward (31:32)
  • Why aren’t there more CDC open-sourced solutions? (34:35)
  • Connecting with Gunnar (37:27)

 

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