Devs modify records just as they normally would. Only, in addition, they produce a record in the outbox table, representing the change to the outside world. I.e

Devs modify records just as they normally would. Only, in addition, they produce a record in the outbox table, representing the change to the outside world. I.e. instead of writing to the DB and Kafka, both changes are done to the database, and then events from the outbox table are CDC-ed to Kafka.