How Kafka-On-Pulsar Integrates With Pulsar Schema To Leverage Pulsar For Kafka Users
Yunze Xu, StreamNative Software Engineer. He is an Apache Pulsar committer and a core maintainer of StreamNative’s KoP project. He has talked about KoP in Apache Pulsar Summits and some Pulsar related meetups.
KoP (Kafka-on-Pulsar) is an open-source protocol plugin of Apache Pulsar that supports producing and consuming messages via Apache Kafka clients. Pulsar has a built-in schema registry service that manages the schema definition of topics, while Kafka needs 3rd-party schema registry services like the most popular Confluent Schema Registry. This talk is mainly focused on how KoP makes use of Pulsar’s schema registry service,