diff --git a/apache-kafka/pom.xml b/apache-kafka/pom.xml
index cda91ed92f..8003743f95 100644
--- a/apache-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@
             <artifactId>spark-cassandra-connector-java_2.11</artifactId>
             <version>${com.datastax.spark.spark-cassandra-connector-java.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
+            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
+            <version>${lombok.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
@@ -175,6 +181,7 @@
         <graphframes.version>0.8.1-spark3.0-s_2.12</graphframes.version>
         <com.datastax.spark.spark-cassandra-connector.version>2.5.2</com.datastax.spark.spark-cassandra-connector.version>
         <com.datastax.spark.spark-cassandra-connector-java.version>1.6.0-M1</com.datastax.spark.spark-cassandra-connector-java.version>
+        <lombok.version>1.18.20</lombok.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/dto/MessageDto.java b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/dto/MessageDto.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7f9e206358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/dto/MessageDto.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.kafka.dto;
+
+import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
+import lombok.Builder;
+import lombok.Data;
+import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
+
+@Data
+@AllArgsConstructor
+@NoArgsConstructor
+@Builder
+public class MessageDto {
+    private String message;
+    private String version;
+}
diff --git a/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomDeserializer.java b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomDeserializer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee6e79dcd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomDeserializer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.baeldung.kafka.serdes;
+
+import com.baeldung.kafka.dto.MessageDto;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SerializationException;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Deserializer;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class CustomDeserializer implements Deserializer<MessageDto> {
+
+    private ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+    @Override
+    public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs, boolean isKey) {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public MessageDto deserialize(String topic, byte[] data) {
+        try {
+            if (data == null){
+                System.out.println("Null received at deserializing");
+                return null;
+            }
+            System.out.println("Deserializing...");
+            return objectMapper.readValue(new String(data, "UTF-8"), MessageDto.class);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new SerializationException("Error when deserializing byte[] to MessageDto");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomSerializer.java b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomSerializer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a414ad8e23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/CustomSerializer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.baeldung.kafka.serdes;
+
+import com.baeldung.kafka.dto.MessageDto;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SerializationException;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serializer;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class CustomSerializer implements Serializer<MessageDto> {
+    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+    @Override
+    public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs, boolean isKey) {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] serialize(String topic, MessageDto data) {
+        try {
+            if (data == null){
+                System.out.println("Null received at serializing");
+                return null;
+            }
+            System.out.println("Serializing...");
+            return objectMapper.writeValueAsBytes(data);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new SerializationException("Error when serializing MessageDto to byte[]");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apache-kafka/src/test/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/KafkaSerDesLiveTest.java b/apache-kafka/src/test/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/KafkaSerDesLiveTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67fff12f5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-kafka/src/test/java/com/baeldung/kafka/serdes/KafkaSerDesLiveTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package com.baeldung.kafka.serdes;
+
+import com.baeldung.kafka.dto.MessageDto;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecords;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.ClassRule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.KafkaContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+
+import java.time.Duration;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class KafkaSerDesLiveTest {
+    private static final String CONSUMER_APP_ID = "consumer_id";
+    private static final String CONSUMER_GROUP_ID = "group_id";
+
+    @ClassRule
+    public static KafkaContainer kafka = new KafkaContainer(DockerImageName.parse("confluentinc/cp-kafka:5.4.3"));
+    private final String TOPIC = "mytopic";
+
+    private static KafkaConsumer<String, MessageDto> createKafkaConsumer() {
+
+        Properties props = new Properties();
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, kafka.getBootstrapServers());
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.CLIENT_ID_CONFIG, CONSUMER_APP_ID);
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, CONSUMER_GROUP_ID);
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.AUTO_OFFSET_RESET_CONFIG, "earliest");
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "com.baeldung.kafka.serdes.CustomDeserializer");
+
+        return new KafkaConsumer<>(props);
+
+    }
+
+    private static KafkaProducer<String, MessageDto> createKafkaProducer() {
+
+        Properties props = new Properties();
+        props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, kafka.getBootstrapServers());
+        props.put(ProducerConfig.CLIENT_ID_CONFIG, CONSUMER_APP_ID);
+        props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
+        props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "com.baeldung.kafka.serdes.CustomSerializer");
+
+        return new KafkaProducer(props);
+
+    }
+
+    @Before
+    public void setUp() {
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenKafkaClientShouldSerializeAndDeserialize() throws InterruptedException {
+
+        MessageDto msgProd = MessageDto.builder().message("test").version("1.0").build();
+
+        KafkaProducer<String, MessageDto> producer = createKafkaProducer();
+        producer.send(new ProducerRecord<String, MessageDto>(TOPIC, "1", msgProd));
+        System.out.println("Message sent " + msgProd);
+        producer.close();
+
+        Thread.sleep(2000);
+
+        AtomicReference<MessageDto> msgCons = new AtomicReference<>();
+
+        KafkaConsumer<String, MessageDto> consumer = createKafkaConsumer();
+        consumer.subscribe(Arrays.asList(TOPIC));
+
+        ConsumerRecords<String, MessageDto> records = consumer.poll(Duration.ofSeconds(1));
+        records.forEach(record -> {
+            msgCons.set(record.value());
+            System.out.println("Message received " + record.value());
+        });
+
+        consumer.close();
+
+        assertEquals(msgProd, msgCons.get());
+
+    }
+
+}
+
+