On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Denis Mikhaylov <notxc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I plan to use Kafka for event-based integration between services. And > I have two questions that bother me a lot: > > 1) What topic naming convention do you use? > There's no strict convention, but using '.' or '_' to indicate hierarchical organization helps (and may eventually map to built-in hierarchical topics). > > 2) Do you wrap your messages in some kind of envelope that contains > metadata like originating system info, timestamp, event type, unique event > identifier, etc? > This is a good practice, and something we've thought about adding support for in Confluent's schema registry. Just make sure it is *strongly* backwards compatible, i.e. only add fields w/ default values. Having a common header/envelope gives you a lot of useful info across all your topics. -Ewen > > Thanks, > Denis. -- Thanks, Ewen
