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by fcantournet 750 days ago
Whether you use protobuf or avro/cap'n'proto/flatbuffers has little to no bearing on whether you need a registry for schemas.
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Registry seems pretty pointless to me, and I can’t understand personally how anyone thought it was a good idea. What was the thought process? ‘oh yeah let’s write a service that our service has to query to work out how to understand the message it just received and which will crash everything if that schema service isn’t there’ - it’s microservices gone mad!

Why worry about what services talk what version of the schema when the service is guaranteed to be able to understand a message?

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?si=D3gBOpPtSqnhgL3b