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Open-Source Change Data Capture Platform
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pip install csvpathN/A — Java-based Kafka connectorpip install csvpathN/A — Java-based Kafka connectorPython data engineers use CSVPath to validate complex CSV files with business rules that go beyond column type checking — enforcing conditional constraints (if column A has value X, column B must be non-null), cross-row lookups, and custom matching expressions. CSVPath rules are stored as text files separate from the Python pipeline code, making them auditable by non-developers.
Python data engineers typically run Debezium as the CDC producer and write Python consumers of the change streams it generates. After deploying Debezium connectors via Docker Compose or Kubernetes, Python services consume CDC events from Kafka topics using confluent-kafka or kafka-python — receiving full before/after row images for every database change, which are then written as Parquet to S3 or applied as upserts to a data warehouse. For teams without Kafka, Debezium Server sinks directly to AWS Kinesis or Redis Streams, both of which have first-class Python client libraries (boto3, redis-py), keeping the Python integration straightforward.
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