Kafka Schema Management

Purpose

Design production-grade Kafka message schemas with type safety, validation, and evolution support. Covers msgspec immutable struct definitions, schema validation patterns, version management, and strategies for handling schema changes without breaking consumers or producers.

When to Use This Skill

Use when defining message formats for Kafka with "design Kafka schema", "create message schema", "manage schema versions", or "handle schema evolution".

Do NOT use for implementing producers/consumers (use kafka-*-implementation skills) or testing (use kafka-integration-testing).

Quick Start

Define schemas in 3 steps:

1. Create schema:

import msgspec