World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 9
From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka
Sandon Jacobs
Senior Developer Advocate at IBM
Feeding raw event data to LLMs leads to hallucinations. A schema-first approach provides the exact machine-readable context needed to generate accurate, predictable code for your event pipelines.
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