Hi,

Here is the dependencies of io confluent kafka avro serializer maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId>
    <version>5.3.0</version>
</dependency>

and

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId>
    <version>5.5.0</version>
</dependency>

Thanks

Avro is developed under the Apache umbrella and this is a data serialization format, which is high performance. The Avro file format is extensively used in the Big Data world. The Avro file format is suggested for Kafka messages.

Following are the benefits of using Avro file format: * Avro file comes with the a schema and very useful in sending data which comes with the schema * Avro data format is in binary format and take less space * Avro is support by variety of programming languages * Avro data format is serializable and this feature is good

Thanks