Automating backwards-compatible schema evolution could recover almost $4 million in engineering capacity for a typical tech platform company.
Schema Registry schema evolution and compatibility types: backward compatibility (consumers can read old data), forward compatibility (producers write old format), full compatibility (both), transitive modes, default compatibility settings, and compatibility groups for Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf.
Automating backwards-compatible schema evolution could recover almost $4 million in engineering capacity for a typical tech platform company.
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