diff --git a/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseOnlineRetriever.java b/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseOnlineRetriever.java
index a52db32..a9ff0a8 100644
--- a/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseOnlineRetriever.java
+++ b/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseOnlineRetriever.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import dev.caraml.serving.store.Feature;
 import dev.caraml.store.protobuf.serving.ServingServiceProto;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException;
@@ -57,13 +58,31 @@ public List<List<Feature>> convertRowToFeature(
                 return featureReferences.stream()
                     .map(ServingServiceProto.FeatureReference::getFeatureTable)
                     .distinct()
-                    .map(cf -> row.getColumnCells(cf.getBytes(), null))
+                        .map(cf -> {
+                            List<Cell> rowCells = row.getColumnCells(cf.getBytes(), null);
+                            System.out.println("Column Family: " + cf);
+                            System.out.println("Row Cells: " + rowCells);
+                            return rowCells;
+                        })
+//                    .map(cf -> row.getColumnCells(cf.getBytes(), null))
                     .filter(ls -> !ls.isEmpty())
                     .flatMap(
                         rowCells -> {
                           Cell rowCell = rowCells.get(0); // Latest cell
-                          String family = Bytes.toString(rowCell.getFamilyArray());
-                          ByteString value = ByteString.copyFrom(rowCell.getValueArray());
+//                          String family = Bytes.toString(rowCell.getFamilyArray());
+//                          System.out.println("rowCell: " + rowCell.toString());
+//                          ByteString value = ByteString.copyFrom(rowCell.getValueArray());
+//                          System.out.println("value: " + value);
+                            ByteBuffer valueBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(rowCell.getValueArray())
+                                    .position(rowCell.getValueOffset())
+                                    .limit(rowCell.getValueOffset() + rowCell.getValueLength())
+                                    .slice();
+                            ByteBuffer familyBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(rowCell.getFamilyArray())
+                                    .position(rowCell.getFamilyOffset())
+                                    .limit(rowCell.getFamilyOffset() + rowCell.getFamilyLength())
+                                    .slice();
+                            String family = ByteString.copyFrom(familyBuffer).toStringUtf8();
+                            ByteString value = ByteString.copyFrom(valueBuffer);
 
                           List<Feature> features;
                           List<ServingServiceProto.FeatureReference> localFeatureReferences =
@@ -118,6 +137,7 @@ public Map<ByteString, Result> getFeaturesFromSSTable(
           .filter(row -> !row.isEmpty())
           .forEach(row -> result.put(ByteString.copyFrom(row.getRow()), row));
 
+
       return result;
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new RuntimeException(e);
diff --git a/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseSchemaRegistry.java b/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseSchemaRegistry.java
index 7802f19..f9ed029 100644
--- a/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseSchemaRegistry.java
+++ b/caraml-store-serving/src/main/java/dev/caraml/serving/store/bigtable/HBaseSchemaRegistry.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import com.google.common.cache.LoadingCache;
 import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader;
@@ -94,7 +95,14 @@ private GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> loadReader(SchemaReference reference)
       Result result = table.get(query);
 
       Cell last = result.getColumnLatestCell(COLUMN_FAMILY.getBytes(), QUALIFIER.getBytes());
-      Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(Bytes.toString(last.getValueArray()));
+      if (last == null) {
+          throw new RuntimeException("Schema not found");
+      }
+      ByteBuffer schemaBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(last.getValueArray())
+          .position(last.getValueOffset())
+          .limit(last.getValueOffset() + last.getValueLength())
+          .slice();
+      Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(ByteString.copyFrom(schemaBuffer).toStringUtf8());
       return new GenericDatumReader<>(schema);
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new RuntimeException(e);