Summary: Confluent is starting to explore the integration of databases with event streams. As part of the first step in this exploration, Martin Kleppmann has made a new open source tool called Bottled Water. It lets you transform your PostgreSQL database into a stream of structured Kafka events. This is tremendously useful for data integration. Writing to a database is easy, but getting the data
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