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Schemas, Contracts, and Compatibility

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If she says “Oh, field number 7 is the house number. They are now sending: { user_id: 53, timestamp: “June 28, 2017 4:00pm”, address: “2 Elm St. If you’re interested in reading about it more, Martin Kleppmann wrote a good blog post comparing schema evolution in different data formats. Now, you can easily test your assumptions.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

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Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are available, such as the Confluent Platform which can be deployed on bare metal, virtual machines, containers, etc. Cloud Memorystore, Amazon ElastiCache, and Azure Cache), applying this concept to a distributed streaming platform is fairly new.