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Learn how to use Confluent Schema Registry and data contracts to validate, mask, and encrypt sensitive data like PII in Kafka workloads using CEL and…
Learn how to use Confluent Schema Registry and data contracts to validate, mask, and encrypt sensitive data like PII in Kafka workloads using CEL and…
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The OSO engineers have worked with over 200 Kafka deployments, and there’s one pattern we see repeatedly – teams struggling with the basic kafka-console-consumer and…