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Terminology · 20
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Transaction Log Stream

Change events derived from a database's write-ahead log — faithful to the table's mutations and to its internal model rather than to the business's.

CDC to Stream
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Change Data Capture

Publishing a stream of a database's row-level changes by reading its replication log, without modifying the application that owns it.

Data Architecture
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Log-Based Ingestion

Building the pipeline around a database's own change log — an initial snapshot followed by a continuous delta stream, with the two stitched together.

CDC Pipeline Design
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CDC Initial Snapshot

The consistent full copy taken when a CDC pipeline starts, before streaming begins — and the step that determines whether the target is correct.

Change Data Capture
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Changelog Stream

A stream whose records are keyed updates, so replaying it from the beginning reconstructs a table — the same information in the other of its two forms.

Stream-Table Duality
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Event Stream

An append-only, retained log of events that many independent consumers read at their own position, and can re-read.

Distributed Systems
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Event Stream Versioning

Transforming an old event version into the current shape when it is read, allowing a stored event history to be interpreted by evolved code.

Event Sourcing
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Log-Based CDC

Capturing changes by reading the database's own write-ahead log, which sees every change with no load on the source and no application involvement.

Change Data Capture
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Query-Based CDC

Detecting changes by repeatedly querying for rows modified since the last run — simple, universally available, and lossy in specific ways.

Change Data Capture
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Stream Enrichment

Attaching reference data to a stream by lookup against a materialised table rather than by joining two unbounded streams.

Streaming Joins
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Stream-Table Duality

The equivalence between a stream of changes and a table of current state — each can be derived from the other.

Streaming Data
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Value Stream

The end-to-end sequence of activities that delivers a result to a customer, viewed across whatever departments and systems it happens to cross.

Business Architecture
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Checkpoint Interval

How often a stateful processor persists its state and offsets, which trades steady-state overhead against how much work is redone after a failure.

Stream Processing Frameworks
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Consumer Group

A set of consumers that cooperatively read one stream, with each partition assigned to exactly one member, so the group collectively processes every message once.

Event Streaming
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Keyed State Size

The total state a job holds per key across all keys, which governs memory, checkpoint duration and recovery time.

Stateful Stream Processing
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Materialized View

A precomputed, stored result of a query, refreshed on a schedule or from a change stream, read instead of recomputing.

Data Architecture
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Offset Management

How a consumer records its position in a stream, and the decision that determines whether processing is at-least-once or at-most-once.

Event Streaming
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Reactive Streams

A specification for asynchronous stream processing in which the consumer requests a specific number of items, making backpressure part of the protocol rather than an afterthought.

Backpressure & Flow Control
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TCP/IP

The layered protocol suite underneath essentially all application traffic — IP routes packets, TCP turns them into a reliable ordered stream.

Networking
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Windowing

Grouping an unbounded stream into finite chunks so aggregation can produce results, defined over event time rather than arrival time.

Streaming Data
Questions · 6
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A team proposes exposing their service's database change stream via CDC so other teams can consume it, avoiding the work of building an event API. What is your assessment?

Name what is actually being proposed The proposal is to publish the service's internal schema as its integration contract. CDC does not emit domain events; it e

CDC to Stream
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A CDC pipeline feeding your warehouse falls three hours behind during a source system's batch job, and the source's transaction log retention is 24 hours. What is the risk and what do you change?

The immediate risk Lag consumes the retention window. At three hours behind against a 24 hour retention, you have 21 hours of margin. If the consumer stops enti

CDC Pipeline Design
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A downstream team needs to react to order changes. The order service can publish events, or they can consume CDC from its database. Which, and why?

The recommendation: published events, with CDC as the mechanism if needed The distinction that matters is what the consumer becomes coupled to . CDC consumed di

Change Data Capture
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Delivery feels slow and leadership wants a productivity initiative. You propose mapping the value stream first. What will you map and what do you expect to find?

Map every step from request to delivered change, with two numbers each Work time — how long the step actually takes when someone is doing it. Wait time — how lo

Value Streams
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For each of these, choose a queue or a stream and justify it — order fulfilment tasks, an audit trail, cache invalidation, and rebuilding a search index.

Order fulfilment tasks — queue Each task is consumed once by one worker and is then irrelevant. Nothing re reads it; no second consumer needs the same task. Wha

Messaging & Queues
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A core mainframe system with no API supports nightly batch file exchange only. The business needs near-real-time order status. Design the integration.

Establish the real constraint "No API" usually means no API the mainframe team will build on your timeline . Find out what exists: message queue interfaces, dat

Legacy Integration