Spring Cloud Stream Kafka and native encoding
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In this *Spring Cloud Stream* sample, we demonstrate native encoding with Kafka and functions.
Spring Cloud Stream will skip the regular message conversion and on the outbound and let Kafka natively perform serialization.
## Requirements
To run this sample, you will need to have installed:
* Java 8 or Above
## Code Tour
There is a test provided where we verify the native conversion done by Kafka. This test uses `EmbeddedKafka`.
You can also run the application against a real Kafka cluster to see it in action.
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