Raj Chauhan

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SRE-turned-DE. Care about observability, cost, and Databricks.

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Schema Registry compatibility mode broke a downstream consumer we didn't expect

Producer added a new required field to an Avro schema. Registry accepted it under FORWARD compatibility, but an older consumer using an outdated schema failed to deserialize the new messages entirely.

Kafka / Streamingkafkaschema-registry