# New Confluent blog post: Self-Describing Events and How They Reduce Code in Your Processors

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Have you ever had to write a program that needed to handle any data payload that could be thrown at you? If so, did you always have to update the […]

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**Read more:** [Self-Describing Events Using Spring Kafka and Confluent Schema Registry](https://www.confluent.io/blog/self-describing-events-using-spring-kafka-and-confluent-schema-registry/)