Kafka serialisation schemes — playing with AVRO, Protobuf, JSON Schema in Confluent Streaming Platform. The code for these examples available at https://github.com/saubury/kafka-serialization Apache Avro was has been the default Kafka serialisation mechanism for a long time. Confluent just updated their Kafka streaming platform with additional support for serialising data with Protocol buffers (or
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