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It is quite tedious when discussing kafka people are spouting just the contents of confluent blog posts, like you must use X serialisation, you must use X regis
by callamdelaney 2y ago
It is quite tedious when discussing kafka people are spouting just the contents of confluent blog posts, like you must use X serialisation, you must use X registry, when in a lot of cases you can just use protobuf.
- fcantournet 2y agoWhether you use protobuf or avro/cap'n'proto/flatbuffers has little to no bearing on whether you need a registry for schemas.
- callamdelaney 2y agoRegistry seems pretty pointless to me, and I can’t understand personally how anyone thought it was a good idea. What was the thought process? ‘oh yeah let’s write a service that our service has to query to work out how to understand the message it just received and which will crash everything if that schema service isn’t there’ - it’s microservices gone mad! Why worry about what services talk what version of the schema when the service is guaranteed to be able to understand a message? Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?si=D3gBOpPtSqnhgL3b https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?si=D3gBOpPtSqnhgL3b