This post is a gentle introduction to Apache Avro. After several discussions with Dario Cazas about what’s possible with Apache Avro, he did some research and summarized it in an email. I found myself looking for that email several times to forward it to different teams to clarify doubts about Avro. After a while, I thought it could be useful for others, and this is how this series of three posts was born.
In summary, Apache Avro is a binary format with the following characteristics: