obm_confluent_blog VS crates.io

So what is actually the Schema Registry? And how does it help to make sense of binary data? In essence Schema Registry is an application with some Rest endpoints, from which schema's can be registered and retrieved. It used to only support Apache Avro. Later support for Protobuf and JSON Schema was added. Part of the same Github project, and what makes Schema Registry easy to use, is a Collection of Java classes that are used to go from bytes to typed objects and vice versa. There are several classes that support Kafka Streams and ksqlDB next to the more low level Kafka [Producer(https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#producerapi) and Consumer clients. There are more advanced use cases, but basically you supply the url for the Schema Registry, and the library will handle the rest. For producing data this will mean optionally register a new schema too get the correct id. The consumer will use the encoded id to fetch the schema used to produce the data. It can also be used with other frameworks like Spring Cloud Stream. For example in the Kotlin Command Handler by using the SpecificAvroSerde class. You might need to set additional properties to get this working.

Rust has a rich ecosystem of frameworks and libraries that let you read, parse, and manipulate text files, interact with cloud services and databases, and perform any other job that your project's development workflow may require. And because of its strong typing and tight memory management, you are much less likely to write programs that behave unexpectedly in production.

All the code discussed in this article can be accessed through this repository. For integration with existing projects consider using keyword_extraction crate available on crates.io.

So, be sure to double-check your critical libraries and be sure their alternatives exist in the Rust ecosystem. There’s a good chance the crates you need are available in Rust's crates.io repository.

The previous section was very simple, this section is also very simple but introduces us to cargo which is Rust's package manager, as a JS dev my mind goes straight to NPM.

Now, there has to be a place where all these packages come from. Similar to npmjs registry, where all node packages are registered, stored and retrieved, Rust also has something called crates.io where many helpful packages and dependencies are registered.

Before proceeding, let's check https://crates.io/, the official Rust package registry.

The most thrilling aspect has been the joy of writing the backend. It's like every struct, enum, and method in Rust forms this interconnected Multiverse of code , which you can see in crates.io which is best Documentation experience I Ever Had.

5. Crates.io

When using crates from eg. crates.io, and also things like std and core

Vendoring your packages was very tedious to even remotely get to work with Cargo. I spent a very long time getting Cargo to work together with cargo-local-registry. We vendor crates from crates.io and a custom internal registry.