Description
Recently I have been experimenting with avro schema that are extended with a "unit" field. By "unit" I mean expressions like "second", or "megabyte" - that is "units of measure".
I received some community interest in making this concept "first class" for avro; I'm filing this JIRA to track the idea.
I delivered a short talk on my experiments at Berlin Buzzwords, which can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQmB2KFKE8
I also wrote a short blog post that may be faster to ingest:
http://erikerlandson.github.io/blog/2019/05/23/unit-types-for-avro-schema-integrating-avro-with-coulomb/
The project itself is here:
https://github.com/erikerlandson/coulomb