Thanks Ewen! Do you have an example of your namings and maybe how your envelope looks? Just curious.
> On 24 июля 2016 г., at 3:41, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > > 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
