Spring Cloud Stream Kafka and native encoding ============================================== In this *Spring Cloud Stream* sample, we demonstrate native encoding with Kafka and functions. Spring Cloud Stream will skip the regular message conversion on the outbound and let Kafka natively perform serialization. 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.