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In this episode of Subscribe, Clemens discusses CNCF CloudEvents, a protocol suite developed by the CNCF Serverless Working Group to provide a common metadata language for events. Developed by a collaborative group of up to 40 companies, CloudEvents establishes a layered standard that defines what an event is and provides consistent mechanisms for expressing those events across various applications, encodings, and transport options such as Kafka, HTTP, and MQTT. The standard addresses the challenges of modern, multi-hop architectures by ensuring that critical contextual information is retained as events move through IoT gateways, brokers, and analytics engines, thereby enabling infrastructure to effectively filter and route event traffic.