Avi, I wouldn’t think there’s any reason to use any specific serde other than avoiding costly json traversal. Serdes are quite useful for transporting typed data. You can use them but don’t have to, however, they’re quite helpful.
Kind regards, Radek Gruchalski ra...@gruchalski.com (mailto:ra...@gruchalski.com) (mailto:ra...@gruchalski.com) de.linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski/ (http://de.linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski/) Confidentiality: This communication is intended for the above-named person and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If it has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender immediately. On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 16:09, Avi Flax wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Rad Gruchalski <ra...@gruchalski.com > (mailto:ra...@gruchalski.com)> wrote: > > You can make samza publish metrics to a kafka topic using your own serdes… > > > Is there any specific reason I should use my own serdes rather than > just using the default JSON serde that ships with Samza? > > Thanks! > Avi > >
