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IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® - May 2026
IBM Sydney, Level 17, 259 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, AUHello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on May 12th from 5:30pm
The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!
Venue:
IBM
259 George Street
Floor/Room: 17.03***
Agenda:- 5:30pm: Doors open
- 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Liz Fong, Technical Fellow, honeycomb.io
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Ravi Bhardwaj, Principal Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
- 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking
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Speaker:
Liz Fong, Technical Fellow, honeycomb.ioTalk:
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Speaker:
Ravi Bhardwaj, Principal Technical Support Engineer, ConfluentTalk:
From Dumb Pipes to Smart Streams: Schema IDs in Kafka HeadersAbstract:
Most Kafka clusters still move loosely structured JSON around, making data hard to trust and reuse. Schema Registry traditionally added magic byte in the payload containing the schema id which meant adding schemas could break down stream systems. With the new Schema Registry Serdes, users can add the schema ids in the kafka record headers. In this talk we'll explore the advantages of adding the schema ids in the headers, how to make this change and what the strategies that users can follow for smooth migration to Kafka headers based schema ids.
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