🔄 Change is Inevitable – Versioning Event-Driven Systems for the Real World 🧬📨 In event-driven architecture, change isn’t a bug — it’s a feature. As your system grows, your events, schemas, and contracts will evolve. But how do you version without breaking everything? In this session, we’ll explore practical strategies for versioning events and evolving event-driven systems safely. Learn how to manage change across producers, consumers, and services without introducing chaos into your distributed architecture. 🎓 What You’ll Learn 🧩 Why Versioning Matters – The risks of tightly coupled event contracts 📜 Event Contract Strategies – Schema evolution, backward/forward compatibility 🧪 Versioning Approaches – In-message versioning, topic-per-version, transformation layers 🧱 Consumer Flexibility – Designing consumers to handle unknown fields and schema drift ⚙️ Tooling & Formats – Avro, JSON Schema, Protobuf, and schema registries 🧼 Best Practices – Naming conventions, version control, and documentation 🔍 Real-World Scenarios – How major systems handle change at scale 🧰 Tools & Tech: Kafka | Azure Event Grid | Schema Registry | EventStoreDB | .NET / Node.js 🔗 Connect with Microsoft Zero To Hero: 🌐 Website: https://microsofthero.com 🔗 LinkedIn: Microsoft Zero to Hero LinkedIn Page 👥 Stay Ahead of the Curve in Event-Driven Architecture Want to avoid breaking your system with the next schema update? 👉 Subscribe and hit the 🔔 to learn from real-world architecture patterns! 📌 Related Sessions and Topics: So You Want to Build an Event-Driven System? Schema Management in Kafka and Azure Event Sourcing in Practice Building Resilient Microservices #EventDrivenArchitecture #Versioning #SchemaEvolution #Kafka #AzureEventGrid #EventContracts #SystemDesign #DistributedSystems #MicrosoftZeroToHero #DevArchitecture #AsyncMessaging #SchemaRegistry #EventSourcing #Microservices