Show Notes
Fabric's Schema Registry promises type-safe streaming pipelines. But non-conforming events vanish without a dead-letter queue, compatibility checks don't exist, and you can't retrofit schema mode on a running Eventstream. We dig into what the contract actually enforces — and what it silently doesn't.
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