This excerpt talks about a schema as a language agnostic description of an object, including the name, the fields on the object and the type of each field, and why you should use one.
From Kafka in Action
By Dylan Scott
From Kafka Streams in Action by Bill Bejeck
In this article, we’re going to look deeper into adding state. Along the way, we’ll get introduced to new abstraction, the Ktable, after which we will move further on to discuss how event streams and database tables relate to one another in ApacheKafka (Kstream and Ktable, respectively).
From Kafka Streams in Action by Bill Bejeck
This article will quickly get you off the ground and show you how Kafka Streams works. We’re going to make a toy application that takes incoming messages and upper-cases the text of those messages, effectively yelling at anyone who reads the message. This application is called the “Yelling Application”.
