Dawn of Kafka DevOps: Managing and Evolving Schemas with Confluent Control Center

The latest release of Confluent Platform introduces new features that enable the building of contextual event-driven applications. Among these is the enhanced integration between Control Center and Confluent Schema Registry, which allows for centralized schema management and evolution while maintaining compatibility. This enables client applications to register and retrieve globally unique schema IDs, inspect topic data, view schema changes, and modify compatibility policies. The main value of Schema Registry is enabling schema evolution as applications and data develop over time, ensuring that all applications relying on old and new versions of a schema remain compatible.