Have a look at https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry <https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry>
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 9:28 AM, chinchu chinchu <chinchutec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > We are looking to use open source schema registry with apache kafka 1.0.1 > and avro. *Do we need to write a serialzer/deserialzier similar to > confluent's KafkAvroSerializer to achieve this ?*.Our schemas are large ,so > one of the reason that we are looking to use the registry is to decrease > the payload with every record. The consumers at any point in time will > know what the schema is for each topic ,because they are all internal to my > team so that is some thing that we can work around for now. > > Thanks, > Chinchu