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Essential Avro - Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers - cover

Essential Avro - Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

Richard Johnson

Publisher: HiTeX Press

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"Essential Avro""Essential Avro" is a definitive guide for engineers, architects, and data practitioners navigating the modern data landscape. The book provides a comprehensive exploration of Apache Avro, starting with the principles of data serialization and its foundational role in distributed systems. Through a meticulous breakdown of Avro’s architecture, data model, encoding mechanisms, and language-agnostic design, readers gain a well-rounded understanding of why Avro has become a cornerstone technology in data ecosystems like Hadoop and Kafka.The guide delves deeply into schema design, evolution, and management, offering practical strategies for ensuring robust compatibility and forward-looking governance. Advanced topics cover serialization and deserialization pipelines, custom codec extensions, performance tuning, and resource management for both streaming and batch workflows. Across chapters dedicated to programming APIs, distributed storage integration, and event-driven systems, "Essential Avro" equips readers with best practices and nuanced insights for using Avro efficiently across Java, Python, C++, Go, and more.With special attention to real-world challenges, the book addresses schema governance, data security, regulatory compliance, and resilience in Avro-powered architectures. Readers benefit from expertise in testing, debugging, disaster recovery, and operational readiness, as well as forward-thinking patterns for serverless, cloud-native, and machine learning use cases. "Essential Avro" stands as both a reference and a roadmap—empowering teams to build reliable, evolvable, and high-performance data platforms with confidence.
Available since: 06/04/2025.
Print length: 250 pages.

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