Data Contracts and Schema Management

Why use Avro data format with Apache Kafka?

Avro is an open-source binary serialization format. But why use it with Kafka? Why not send JSON or XML messages? What benefits does it give us? This is what we'll be exploring today. Serialization It's important to understand that records…

Guide to Apache Avro and Kafka

Or, how to produce and consume Kafka records using Avro serialization in Java. So far we've seen how to produce and consume simple String records using Java and console tools. In this post, I would like to show you how…

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