This document discusses the limitations of traditional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) systems and how Apache Kafka provides a better solution for streaming data. It outlines some of the challenges with isolation levels, triggers, and change data capture in high load systems. The document then introduces Apache Kafka as a horizontally scalable and fault tolerant streaming platform that can be used to build real-time data pipelines. It demonstrates how Kafka Connect and the Kafka Streams API can be used for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and streaming data integration in a more reliable way compared to previous approaches.