Building data pipelines with Vitess

This post details how Vitess's VStream API, exposed through VTGates, provides a unified change stream across sharded Vitess clusters. It explains how this low-level gRPC primitive is used by popular CDC tools like Debezium, and by PlanetScale Connect for Airbyte and Fivetran sources. It also provides a practical example of using a direct gRPC client to stream changes from a Vitess cluster, demonstrating the output format and the process of setting up and running the example.