Kafka for Developers - Data Contracts Using Schema Registry - Build a Coffee Shop Order Consumer

The video tutorial guides viewers through setting up a Kafka consumer in IntelliJ, refactoring the code to handle coffee orders, configuring necessary properties like deserializers and group IDs, and testing the consumer with a producer. It also explains the use of default values in Avro schemas, ensuring smooth data handling even when certain fields are omitted.

What is the default value for the nickname property in the schema?

How does the consumer handle the status property when no value is sent?

What will be the next topic discussed in the following lecture after this one?