Yeah, more tooling is required. We use Schema Registry for our Kafka consumers and producers and it's quite handy, we tend to use it in FORWARD compatibility mo

Yeah, more tooling is required. We use Schema Registry for our Kafka consumers and producers and it's quite handy, we tend to use it in FORWARD compatibility mode. We've also in the past used build time compatibility checks for the same purpose. https://docs.confluent.io/current/build-applications.html https://docs.confluent.io/current/build-applications.html