Consumer Deserializer
Understand how Kafka consumers rely on deserializers to convert byte streams back into objects matching the producer's serialization method. Explore why matching serializers and deserializers is crucial, discover best practices using frameworks like Avro for data compatibility, and see examples demonstrating Avro deserialization within Kafka consumers.
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As discussed earlier, Kafka producers use serializers to write objects as streams of bytes to partitions. When the consumers read records from a partition, they read a stream of bytes and need deserializers to convert the byte stream back into an object. It is imperative that the deserializer used to convert the byte streams into objects should match the serializer that initially transformed the objects into the byte ...