Hello everyone, After doing some searching on the mailing list for best practices on integrating Avro with Kafka there appears to be at least 3 options for integrating the Avro Schema; 1) embedding the entire schema within the message 2) embedding a unique identifier for the schema in the message and 3) deriving the schema from the topic/resource name.
Option 2, appears to be the best option in terms of both efficiency and flexibility. However, from a programming perspective it complicates the solution with the need for both an envelope schema (containing a "schema id" and "bytes" field for record data) and message schema (containing the application specific message fields). This requires two levels of serialization/deserialization. Questions: 1) How are others dealing with versioning of schemas? 2) Is there a more elegant means of embedding a schema ids in a Avro message (I am new to both currently ;-)? Thanks in advance! Shone
