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What is the Schema Registry, and why do you need to use it?

Jan Schulte on April 17, 2023

Apache Kafka solves many problems within your software engineering organization. Once adoption increases, it also introduces new challenges, such a...
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Gerard Klijs

Creator/maintainer of the Rust Crate for Schema Registry here. Thanks a lot for the example. Another great advantage of schema's, is being able to work with different languages. You can have a producer in Rust, and a consumer in Java. The payloads will also be smaller, which also means better performance.

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Jan Schulte

Great addition!