Kafka for Developers - Data Contracts Using Schema Registry - Let's Build AVRO Kafka Consumer

This lecture covers building a Kafka consumer application. It starts with setting up the consumer, including configuring necessary properties like bootstrap servers and deserializers. The lecture then explains subscribing to a topic and polling for data. It details processing consumer records, including decoding byte arrays into greeting instances. Finally, the lecture addresses testing the consumer and resolving logging issues.

What is the role of the poll method in the Kafka consumer application?

What steps are taken to decode the greeting instance from a byte array?

How do you handle exceptions in the Kafka consumer application?