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Unresolved Impediments
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Motivation
There are a number of tools which liberate relational data into the event streaming domain, such as Kafka Connect and Debezium. These pull the relational rows from a database and convert them into events for use in downstream Kafka Stream consumers. One of the main issues with this is that the data is often still highly normalized, and these normalized relationships prove difficult to use with existing Kafka Streams. At this point, it is often desirable to denormalize some of these relationships using the Kafka Streams API.
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