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Topic-specific entry points for internal linking, discovery, and deeper subject exploration.

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The CDC Playbook: Real-time Syncing between PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch

The CDC Playbook: Zero-Delay Data Syncing How do you keep your search engine (Elasticsearch) updated when a user changes their profile in your primary database (PostgreSQL)? Dual-writing in your application code is a rec…

Apr 20, 20261 min read

PlaybookDistributed Systems Mastery

#cdc#debezium#postgresql

MessagingAdvanced

Distributed Transactions Part 4: The Transactional Outbox

Part 4: The Transactional Outbox The Dual Write Problem occurs when you update your DB and then try to send an event to Kafka. If the Kafka send fails, your DB and downstream systems are out of sync. 1. The Solution Writ…

Apr 20, 20261 min read

Deep DiveKafka Production Playbook

#kafka#outbox-pattern#cdc

System DesignAdvanced

System Design: Building a Search Indexing Platform

Search gets demoed as a search box. Search gets operated as a distributed data synchronization problem. The hard part is usually not querying Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. The hard part is getting the right data into the…

Apr 10, 202611 min read

Deep Dive

#system design#search#elasticsearch

Data EngineeringAdvanced

Change Data Capture with Debezium: Real-Time Data Synchronization Patterns

Change Data Capture (CDC) is one of those techniques that, once you understand it, you see it everywhere. The pattern: instead of your application explicitly publishing events when data changes, let the database engine i…

Feb 1, 202511 min read

Deep DiveKafka Production Playbook

#cdc#debezium#kafka