Best Practices for Kafka Connect Data Transformation & Schema Management

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This post details best practices for data transformation, schema management, data masking/encryption, and data enrichment using Kafka Connect. It emphasizes leveraging Exactly-Once Semantics (EOS), transactional APIs, idempotent operations, two-phase commit strategies, and Schema Registry for robust data integration. Specific technical details include configurations for InsertField SMT, recommendations for Avro/Protobuf/JSON Schema formats, and compatibility levels (BACKWARD, FORWARD, FULL).