# Schema compatibility

Term `schema-compatibility`. Consumers can still interpret the versions of retained records they need to process.

Practitioner: Bellemare. Read in: *Building Event-Driven Microservices*, Ch. 3 Backward Compatibility.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Bellemare, Adam. *Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale*. O’Reilly, 2020. [Link](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-event-driven-microservices/9781492057888/). ([b5-building-event-driven-microservices](/bibliography#b5-building-event-driven-microservices))