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So far so good
What do you like best about the product?
No need to self manage kafka clusters and kafka connect connectors.
What do you dislike about the product?
No option to whitelist IP addresses with access to kafka cluster
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A way to connect micro services with each other, message processing. Really useful that we can have multiple consumers processing same events.
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Confluent Kafka has very much user friendly interface for viewing a topic's data and meta data.
What do you like best about the product?
GUI interface, SQL interaction, meta data showcase, topic information
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much i can think of, yet can be improved in the performance side
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used the confluent Kafka product.
Yeah was useful
Yeah was useful
The Confluent platform is leading the charge in real time data streaming!
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent Kafka is a fantastic open-source streaming software that lets you build event-driven systems and allows backend systems to communicate with one another. The best thing about Confluent as a platform is that a large community uses it and its support system is like no other. They have excellent documentation on all their products, so all the information you need is available at the tip of your fingers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some downside to the Confluent platform is that some of its products, like Confluent Kafka can be difficult to understand and visualize. However, there are tons of user-created tutorials that are available, and they are fantastic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent Kafka specifically is helping me connect backend services by taking advantage of their event-driven consumers and producers, and from my experience, they do it better than their competitors at AWS or Apache.
Confluent offers an easy to use interface for managing and operating Kafka Clusters.
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface provides a seamless experience and has lots of rich features and built-in tools to help you debug. I also like the Free tier clusters.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface can become laggy when dealing with lots of environments and clusters in the same tenant. It could be improved by providing a more resilient user interface that does not slow down when rendering large amounts of data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is solving our managed serverless problem. We do not want to self-manage our own infrastructure for hosting Kafka/serverless events. Instead, we use Confluent to focus on development instead of operations and maintenance.
Confulent review in nanobebe
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and navigate, UI looks good and works well, can't see Avro messages
What do you dislike about the product?
a bit hard to get logs and good observability. I Think confluent should notify users when outage notify users via emails when they happen
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IOT Telemetry Bulk inserts, easy to use and no maintece requried
Feature-rich cloud service with a wonderful support team
What do you like best about the product?
I should start off by clarifying that my company has not, at this time, moved forward with Confluent. That has to do with the direction our platform is taking, rather than the capabilities/quality of the Confluent solution. As we built a proof of concept with Confluent Cloud, it was very clear that it is feature-rich and very user-friendly. They are actively building a Terraform provider which will allow us to do even more IaC configuration, rather than manually or with deployment scripts.
All that said, I think the place where Confluent shined the most was with regards to the contacts with whom we worked throughout our process. They proactively reached out to us to provide helpful resources/articles/videos, and got on calls with us to discuss implementation solutions and to better understand our needs. There was no pressure for us to sign a contract or move forward with any sales process. Their goal was purely to make themselves available to us so we could build the best possible solution and follow best practices and design standards around the Kafka ecosystem.
Confluent Cloud also offers a lot of wonderful out-of-the-box connectors to systems like SQS, Lambda, etc. It saves you from writing a lot of boilerplate code.
All that said, I think the place where Confluent shined the most was with regards to the contacts with whom we worked throughout our process. They proactively reached out to us to provide helpful resources/articles/videos, and got on calls with us to discuss implementation solutions and to better understand our needs. There was no pressure for us to sign a contract or move forward with any sales process. Their goal was purely to make themselves available to us so we could build the best possible solution and follow best practices and design standards around the Kafka ecosystem.
Confluent Cloud also offers a lot of wonderful out-of-the-box connectors to systems like SQS, Lambda, etc. It saves you from writing a lot of boilerplate code.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, this is a tough one to answer because my experience was so overwhelmingly positive. Though I've worked in eventually consistent and event-sourced systems before, I am a Kafka newbie. So, there is a pretty steep learning curve around it. While I do think that Confluent Cloud offered some great resources and tutorials, I wish they could go a step further with demonstrations of how to integrate Kafka with your software, with real-world examples of what the consuming/producing code might look like and how that would fit into your larger application.
Also, I was struggling to understand how multiple message producers could write messages with optimistic concurrency, a la EventStoreDb.
Also, I was struggling to understand how multiple message producers could write messages with optimistic concurrency, a la EventStoreDb.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems we were looking to solve were to have an immutable ledger that serves as the source of truth for all changes to the system. I also want a system that leverages eventual consistency to help create loose coupling between services and to have a higher system resiliency/disaster recovery.
Some benefits I realized from Kafka/Confluent Cloud specifically are the power of KSQL, which essentially serves as an abstraction from a lot of the producer/consumer code you'd otherwise have to write in your application logic. It's incredibly powerful,and is drastically simpler to write than lambda/worker logic that you'd otherwise need to create.
Some benefits I realized from Kafka/Confluent Cloud specifically are the power of KSQL, which essentially serves as an abstraction from a lot of the producer/consumer code you'd otherwise have to write in your application logic. It's incredibly powerful,and is drastically simpler to write than lambda/worker logic that you'd otherwise need to create.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a shot. You can get an evaluation coupon code upon signup that allows you to play around with Confluent Cloud and try it for yourself.
Kafka if very hard to manage and professional help in this area is pretty week
What do you like best about the product?
Some of the visualization tools provided by the Confluent are very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
Troubleshooting is very hard, the management is very expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
metrics gathering form various sources
Scalability Of Java/Spring/Kotlin Function In One GCP Browser Session Through Confluent In A Region
What do you like best about the product?
Its flexibility in populating 1 function
What do you dislike about the product?
Not compatible for each browser sessions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Atomic Web Application
Reliable Cloud Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We don't have to maintain our Kafka brokers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing by partition & It would be great to be able to assign more granular permissions to users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Supporting our Event Driven Architecture.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your architecture requirements carefully - don't over-engineer. Use SaaS where appropriate for your organisation.
Easiest path to production Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We had a working Kafka cluster in minutes that was easy to experiment with and run various load testing scenarios. When we switched to a production load it was just as simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had some configuration issues early because of signup on their site directly vs through the cloud marketplace, eventually got it sorted - but was a hassle. Depending on your architecture and usage price can be fairly high. So far we are happy with overall cost vs managing our own.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a reliable messaging infrastructure with: easy polyglot support, reliable replay, batched message handling, automated scaling, and downstream integrations (connectors). Confluent delivers it all with a slick ops UI. For fully managed Kafka, we don't see any competitor that comes close to Confluent.
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