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# Introducing JSON Structure - A Better Schema


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 12:10–12:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 3 - Microsoft
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1534-introducing-json-structure-a-better-schema)

## Description

Mostly everyone uses JSON Schema in some way and mostly everyone had also stepped on their own toes using it. Why? Because we all want a data definition language to define data structure and JSON Schema isn't one. In this talk, you'll learn about JSON Structure, a data definition language that looks quite familiar, but provides better guardrails and fewer pitfalls


## Speaker

### [Clemens Vasters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@clemens-vasters)

Principal Architect, Messaging and Real-Time Intelligence, Microsoft


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