Richard Bolkey

The core output appenders in logback transitioned away from configuring layouts in favor of encoders (see: https://logback.qos.ch/codes.html#layoutInsteadOfEncoder). Currently, the cloudwatch appender in this repo doesn't follow this design, but still...

Currently on master, the maven-javadoc-plugin fails to render documentation for a number of the classes due to missing parameter descriptions, and thus the maven verify phase fails.

Confluent Schema Registry as a schema uri

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We keep our Avro schemas in Confluent's [Schema Registry](http://docs.confluent.io/2.0.0/schema-registry/docs/index.html). It would be great if we could point the `schema_uri` to the registry's API, but the registry returns the Avro schema...