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Don’t Break that App: Manage Schema Change with Apache Pulsar

Schemas are an essential part of any data platform. They’re metadata that define the shape of the data and the properties’ names and data types.

However, schema changes can affect the downstream consumers of the data who expect data in a specific format.

To overcome this challenge, data platforms can support schema evolution to handle scenarios like this.

This is a Pulsar-specific data structure, which is itself a schema, that describes the schema of messages transported via Pulsar.