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Event Streams in Action
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Event Streams in Action

by Valentin Crettaz, Alexander Dean
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. Schemas

This chapter covers

  • Event schemas and schema technologies
  • Representing events in Apache Avro
  • Self-describing events
  • Schema registries

In the first part of this book, we took a wide-ranging look at event streams and the unified log, using fictitious online retailer Nile. We looked in depth at adding a unified log to our organization and experimented with different stream-processing frameworks to work with the events in our Kafka topics.

But like fast-food addicts, we didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the quality of the events that we were feeding into our unified log. This part of the book aims to change this, by looking much more closely at the way we model the events flowing through our unified log, using schemas ...

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