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Binary Encoding

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Avro writes values with no field tags whatsoever — zigzag varints, block-encoded collections, a union branch index — so the schema is mandatory to decode anything. Interviewers contrast this with Protobuf's tagged fields to get at why Avro is compact but schema-coupled.

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