KafkaAvroSerializer for serializing Avro without schema.registry.url

Question

I\'m a noob to Kafka and Avro. So i have been trying to get the Producer/Consumer running. So far i have been able to produce and consume simple Bytes and Strings, using the fol

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, KafkaAvroSerializer requires Schema Registry which is part of Confluent platform, and usage requires licensing.

The main advantage of using the schema registry is that your bytes on wire will smaller, as opposed to writing a binary payload with schema for every message.

I wrote a blog post detailing the advantages