Confluent Schema Registry | Apache Kafka 101 (2025 Edition)
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Once you or your team has data in a Kafka topic, you likely aren’t the only group in your organization who could use it. In this episode, Tim Berglund introduces you to Confluent Schema Registry—an open source tool for keeping track of schema changes and ensuring compatibility for producers and consumers.
Watch now and learn how to write and read messages with Schema Registry, how to plan for backward and forward compatibility, and more.
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro to Confluent Schema Registry
0:51 - Why You Need a Schema Registry
1:38 - How Confluent Schema Registry Works
2:52 - Writing Messages With Schema Registry
3:53 - Reading Messages With Schema Registry
4:24 - Planning for Predictable Exceptions
6:08 - Supported Serialization Formats
7:41 - When Schema Registry Is Non-Negotiable
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