title: Simplest Kafka Avro consumer in python
body: <p>I have a system that sends some data to Kafka broker using Avro format. Looks like Confluent platform is best suited to receive, consume and process it further - however it's huge and heavy.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to use generic Apache Kafka and write my own consumer code in python. </p>
  
  <p>Is it really possible? All samples of code that I found relay on Confluent, especially they require schema registry that is not present in original Apache Kafka. </p>