ef="#make-changing-easy"></a>Make changing easy</h3>
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<p>So, if implementing validation logic is the responsiblity of the application, what is the purpose of the schema?</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s simply to allow for the encoding and decoding of messages between a myriad of producers and consumers, and the differing versions of the schema they may use.</p>
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<p>The idea, then, is to let <em>producers produce what they know, and consum