Benefits of This Setup

• Real-time updates: dashboards, fraud detection, shipping updates are instant.
• Correct ordering: per customer or per business key.
• Scalable: multiple partitions and tasks for high throughput.
• Reliable: Kafka stores events, can replay if needed.
• Flexible: same event can be used by many consumers (analytics, cache, microservices).

Conclusion

Connecting Debezium with Kafka is the standard way to build a real-time streaming pipeline.

• Debezium captures database changes safely.
• Kafka distributes these changes to many consumers.
• Partitioning ensures correct order per entity.

This setup helps companies move from slow batch jobs to fast event-driven systems, making their applications more reactive, reliable, and scalable.