The article examines common cross‑department collaboration pain points like inconsistent API contracts and fragmented toolchains, then proposes a contract‑first architecture using OpenAPI, schema registries, and automated code generation to standardize APIs, data models, and governance processes.
An in‑depth case study of a Chinese bank’s near‑real‑time data platform reveals its evolution from a monolithic CDC pipeline to a split architecture featuring a real‑time data lake and a data‑service bus, detailing component choices, schema‑registry integration, SDK development, observability, and future roadmap.
This article explains how Kafka's Schema Registry manages schema evolution and compatibility types—backward, forward, transitive, and full—using Avro schemas, demonstrates the impact of field additions or deletions on producers and consumers, and shows how to change a topic's compatibility setting via REST API.
This article summarizes the Pravega Schema Registry project, its integration with Flink's Catalog API, the addition of Debezium CDC support, and the related implementation challenges, providing detailed DDL examples, code snippets, and architectural diagrams for building real‑time data pipelines.
This article chronicles the four‑year evolution of Chehaoduo Group’s Kafka ecosystem—from its initial role as a simple data‑ingestion layer to becoming the core of the company’s large‑scale data pipeline—detailing cluster management, upgrade strategies, multi‑cluster deployment, AVRO schema handling, SDK development, and operational lessons learned.
