Kafka Connect JDBC vs Debezium CDC

This explanation focuses on the differences between Debezium SQL Server CDC Connector and JDBC Connector, with more general interpretation about Debezium and CDC. tl;dr- scroll down 🙂 Debezium Debezium is used only as a source connector, records all row-level changes. Debezium Documentation says: Debezium is a set of distributed services to capture changes in your … Read more

Kafka Connect running out of heap space

When you have Kafka problems with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a memory problem. Several Kafka admin tools like kafka-topics.sh will mask the true error with this when trying to connect to an SSL PORT. The true (masked) error is SSL handshake failed ! See this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4090 The solution … Read more