Real Time data streams from SQL Server using Kafka Connect in the Cloud


Introduction

Real-time data has never been more critical as it is today to understand customer needs for the business in a digital world where everything happens at a fast pace. Many organizations have realized in recent days that business reports generated by some of their legacy analytical frameworks, which mostly gets populated by overnight batch jobs adds a lag of almost 10 to 24 hrs. There are many use cases where static data do not add much value to the businesses especially in today’s dynamically changing needs of a customer’s product interest, where it becomes a necessity to understand point