Running the AvroProducer

To build the project, run the following command from the kioto directory:

$ gradle jar

If everything is OK, the output is something like the one shown here:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 3s
 1 actionable task: 1 executed

1. If it is not running yet, go to Confluent's directory and start it:

$ ./bin/confluent start

2. The broker is running on port 9092. To create the healthchecks-avro topic, execute the following command:

$ ./bin/kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --topic healthchecks-avro --replication-factor 1 --partitions 4

3. Note that we are just creating a normal topic and nothing indicates the messages' format.
4. Run a console consumer for the healthchecks-avro topic:

$ ./bin/kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic healthchecks-avro

5. From our IDE, run the main method of the AvroProducer.
6. The output on the console...