Robert Yokota updates some prior knowledge:
In the article Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?, Martin Kleppmann discusses when to combine several event types in the same topic and introduces new subject name strategies for determining how Confluent Schema Registry should be used when producing events to an Apache Kafka® topic.
Schema Registry now supports schema references in Confluent Platform 5.5, and this blog post presents an alternative means of putting several event types in the same topic using schema references, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.
Click through to see how this works out.