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Schema registries in 2026: revisit Confluent Schema Registry, Apicurio Registry and Karapace before you ship another event schema
An event schema looks harmless in a pull request. A few fields, a namespace, maybe a default value. But once a producer starts writing with it, that schema is a contract with every consumer that reads the topic today and every consumer that will replay it next year.
Read moreKafka and Redpanda: revisit the choice before you treat them as the same bus
Many teams say “we run Kafka” when they mean “our services talk to a Kafka-compatible broker”. That shortcut was useful when one open source broker dominated the protocol.
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