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Apache Avro™ is the leading serialization format for record data, and first choice for streaming data pipelines.
It offers excellent schema evolution, and has implementations for the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala, &hellip;), Python, C/C++/C#, PHP, Ruby,
Rust, JavaScript, and even Perl.
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For Java / JVM users, find out everything you need to know about specifying a schema, (de)serializing Avro data and code generation.
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For Python users, find out everything you need to know about specifying a schema and (de)serializing Avro data.
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