This document discusses change data capture (CDC) and how it can be used to stream change events from databases. It introduces Debezium, an open source CDC platform that captures change events from transaction logs. Debezium supports capturing changes from multiple databases and transmitting them as a stream of events. The summary discusses how CDC can be used for data replication between databases, auditing, and in microservices architectures. It also covers deployment of CDC on Kubernetes using OpenShift.