[DISCUSS] KIP-838 Simulate batching and compression

Hey guys! I would like to start an early discussion on this: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-838+Simulate+batching+and+compression Thanks!

Re: [DISCUSS] KIP-821: Connect Transforms support for nested structures

Thank you all for your feedback, and sorry for the long wait for a reply. I would like to explore the idea of JSONPath-inspired/subset notation a bit further: It will need to be a much-reduced version of JSONPath: - No full support for JsonPath therefore an additional dependency. - All paths