The document discusses schema registries, emphasizing their role as centralized repositories for schema management which support decentralized serialization and deserialization in data pipelines. It highlights the importance of understanding data semantics for real-time stream processing and presents various existing schema registry options, including Cask, Confluent, and Hortonworks. A pipeline example is provided to illustrate the interaction between a schema registry and message serialization/deserialization for applications like Apache Kafka and Flink.
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