--- title: Best Towards Dev posts — July 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Towards Dev posts from July 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of/2025/07 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of/2025/07 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Towards Dev posts — July 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Towards Dev posts from July 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Towards Dev — July 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-cdc-without-kafka-to-update-configs-in-real-time-1ca9jyxcm "MySQL + CDC (without Kafka) to update configs in real-time") Article Towards Dev · 1y MySQL + CDC (without Kafka) to update configs in real-time A technical implementation guide for setting up real-time configuration updates using MySQL Change Data Capture (CDC) with Debezium in embedded mode, streaming to AWS Kinesis instead of Kafka, and updating Redis configurations. The solution uses AWS services like DynamoDB for offset storage, Secrets Manager for credentials, and ECS for deployment, with comprehensive monitoring through Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack. 19 [See all Towards Dev archives](/sources/towardsdev/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of/2025/07#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of/2025/07","name":"Best Towards Dev Posts — July 2025","description":"The most upvoted Towards Dev posts from July 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of/2025/07#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-cdc-without-kafka-to-update-configs-in-real-time-1ca9jyxcm","name":"MySQL + CDC (without Kafka) to update configs in real-time"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Towards Dev","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"July 2025"}]}]} ```