Deploy Event-Driven Architectures Everywhere Using Azure & Confluent Cloud

This post demonstrates a hybrid cloud architecture strategy by detailing how to build a persistent bridge from on-premises or other clouds to Microsoft Azure using Confluent Replicator. It illustrates integrating with Azure services like Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) and Power BI using Confluent's prebuilt connectors. The post outlines a four-phase deployment for an order processing system, starting with an on-premises MySQL database, streaming changes to Confluent Platform via Debezium MySQL CDC Connector, replicating data to Confluent Cloud in Azure using Confluent Replicator, and finally connecting Confluent Cloud to Azure services like ADLS using a sink connector.