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About Avro

Apache Avro is a data serialization system. It is described as a format for record data used in streaming data pipelines. It provides schema evolution capabilities. It has implementations for multiple programming languages.

Used for

  • Specifying a schema for data.
  • Serializing and deserializing Avro data.

Who it is for

  • Python users.

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