I recently took a look into the DZone Integration Zone, and it was globally all about APIs. How to design APIs, test them, use the latest framework, and so on. But it would be a bad idea to forget that there are many things to integrate!
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What Is Change Data Capture?
Change data capture, or CDC, is a kind of technology that synchronizes two data sources together. The synchronization can be bi-directional, and everything's made to make it very simple. Just choose the tables you need to synchronize, and if needed, it will also create new tables in the target database. Of course, you can define other existing tables in a simple manner, it’s up to you!