I use avro for kafka message. When producing avro message, it fails to access schema registry, ERROR io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.rest.RestService - Failed to send HTTP request to endpoint: http://localhost:8081/subjects/avro_emp-value/versions
When using confluent schema registry, dose it require to explicitly start the local registry? Is there a free public avro schema registry available to use? Thanks, aj