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"Plain JSON" encoding for Apache AvroPermalink

Also available here. JIRA-3986. Illustrating Avro project PR for C#. The Apache Avro project defines a JSON Encoding, which is optimized for encoding data in JSON, but primarily aimed at exchanging data between implementations of the Apache Avro specification. The choices made ...

A semantic identifier for occurrences: CloudEvent "type" Permalink

In today's xRegistry WG Friday meeting we had a debate about the relationship between the message identifier (messageid) that uniquely identifies a metadata template for a CloudEvent (if that is the chosen envelope format) and the CloudEvent type attribute. In the message ...

Excrement on the platformPermalink

I took the light rail from Santa Clara into San Jose downtown yesterday evening. This is Silicon Valley. One of the world's virtual gold mines. There was human excrement on the train platform. Homeless people all over St. James Park and more in store front entrances. Folks are ...