[erichwang]

Making the schema management simpler was definitely one of the things we wanted to do here. We wanted it to be easy to set up and maintain, and schema inconsistency is one of those things that has been a continued sore spot from my past experiences. The only caveat here is that our post only discusses data that is already in Kafka for the most part. To have a complete solution, ideally the client submitting the structured event to Kafka would also recognize and enforce that same serialization schema -- which is a bit of harder problem to solve in a general sense, but there are ways to do this.