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Current state: Under Discussion

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: here

Motivation

Apache Kafka is widely used for asynchronous communication between services, with Protocol Buffers being a common serialization format due to its efficiency and strong typing. In production, schema registries provide visibility into message formats. However, during local development and debugging, engineers often operate outside this managed ecosystem — schema registry access may be unavailable, and protobuf messages are not human-readable in binary form.

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