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From YouTube: Sharing the wealth, socialising Kafka event sources in an organisation - S. Saeed & N. Townsend, IBM

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AsyncAPI Conference 2021 - Day 3
18th November 2021

You've built your Kafka applications and now you're reaping the benefits of stream processing. You realise you're sitting on a gold mine of data that others use to enrich their applications. But how can you make others aware and help enable them to join in your successes? This talk will describe how we have adopted AsyncAPI as the mechanism to socialise Kafka event streams within an organisation. AsyncAPI provides the means to document a data source as an external API - but Kafka provides some unique challenges when using the document to write an application. Schema registries have vendor specific serialisation libraries. Kafka's distributed topology doesn't always map to the specification. We will explore the scope of the current specification and discuss new requirements for the Kafka use case to enhance the developer experience.