Kafka Schema Evolution: A Guide to the Confluent Schema Registry | HackerNoon
While applications are producing and consuming messages to and fro Kafka, you’ll notice that new consumers of existing topics start emerging. These new consumers (applications) might have been written by the same engineers who wrote the original producer of those messages or by people you don’t know. The emergence of these consumers is perfectly normal. However, they’ll need to understand the format of the messages on the topic. Another thing you might notice is that