There are not a lot of companies that directly use avro. They will most likely use a system that uses avro.
If you're looking for companies, then you're looking for systems that the companies make or use thinks like: Apache Spark Apache Hadoop Apache Kafka Apache Hive Apache Drill Snowflake Presto Google Big table Here is a link of the usages of avro. You'll see a ton of things. https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.avro/avro/usages On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 3:40 PM Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I work for two companies using Avro (contractor, I won't name them) but I > don't know what good it serves anyone knowing that we use them. Would you ask > the same question about JSON, or XML, or whether we use nginx or apache? > > Avro is one of about 5 components in the distributed messaging architectures, > and aside that is is very nicely designed (I believe the schema versioning > and rigorously documented canonical forms are an almost unique point of > attraction) > > I don't mean to make light of your question, just to point out that I don't > think many companies are proudly announcing to the world that they use > Avro... why would they? > > Lee Hambley > http://lee.hambley.name/ > +49 (0) 170 298 5667 > > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 22:30, M. Manna <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I believe Confluent and Imply are the two companies I know of. >> >> >> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 20:28, Juan Cruz Viotti <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey there! >>> >>> Do you know where can I find a list of relatively well-known companies >>> that make use of Apache Avro? I'm trying to collect a small list for >>> research purposes and my search is not yielding many results apart from >>> Facebook. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> -- >>> Juan Cruz Viotti >>> Software Engineer >>> https://www.jviotti.com
