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# Avro
Frends offers seamless integration with [Avro](https://avro.apache.org/), enabling you to effortlessly use the Avro serialization system in your processes.
By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize Avro integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends has tasks for both serializing and deserializing Avro format data.
## Use cases
Below you will find examples of typical use cases for Avro and how they could be implemented in Frends.
### Deserializing Avro data
By using the HTTP trigger in conjunction with the [`Deserialize`](/tasks/tasks/avro/deserialize.md) task, we can create an integration that listens for incoming HTTP traffic and deserializes the Avro format data from the request body into JSON.
Deserializing data
### Serializing Avro data
By using the File trigger with the [`Serialize`](/tasks/tasks/avro/serialize.md) task, we can create an integration that watches a local folder for JSON files, and when one appears, its contents are read and serialized into Avro format for further use.
Serializing data
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