Kafka Topic Naming Conventions
What are the naming conventions for a Kafka topic?
Kafka topic can have any names you want. It is very important to choose a naming convention in your company to maintain some kind of consistency.
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Common structures adopted are hierarchical such as <department name>.<team name>.<dataset name>.<data format> (you can define your own).
Suffixing by <data format> can be a good way to indicate in advance how to consume a topic for example .avro , .json, .text, .protobuf, .csv, .log
Valid characters for Kafka topics are the ASCII alphanumerics, ., _, and - and it is better not to mix . and _ to avoid metric namespace collisions:
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