Capturing Every Change From Shopify’s Sharded Monolith

Shopify is moving from existing query-based CDC (Change-Data Capture) tooling (Longboat) to an immutable, append-only, log-based mechanism. This has required a complete re-platforming, involving a shift to new, open source technology such as Kafka Connect and Debezium.

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