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Event-Driven Architecture - Kafka Vendor of Choice
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent has, in the last year, released a lot of additional features that make it simpler to manage the Confluent Kafka infrastructure. My organization manages its infrastructure through Terraform, so having a Terraform provider is a big requirement for us. In addition, Confluent also provides a lot of tooling that is consistently useful (Schema Registry exports, Prometheus monitoring tools, etc).
In addition to this, their support has been useful.
In addition to this, their support has been useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some minor growing pains related to building out the managed Kafka infrastructure at Confluent. As a result, we've had to spend a considerable amount of effort rectifying initial account design decisions that we later found out were incorrect.
To be fair, if we had started using Confluent today, we wouldn't have run into these issues. It's clear that Confluent has made significant leaps since we first started using them 2 years ago.
To be fair, if we had started using Confluent today, we wouldn't have run into these issues. It's clear that Confluent has made significant leaps since we first started using them 2 years ago.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use an event-based architecture, so utilizing a managed Kafka solution was top of mind. Confluent is used to provide infrastructure that will allow our services to communicate with one another in an event-driven manner.
Great product, efficient support
What do you like best about the product?
We always feel close to the technical team, having good channels to address architecture at low and high levels.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monitoring is not excellent yet. We spend loads of extra money with custom metrics to ensure all our services are working okay.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IOT platform event streaming. It's our central nervous system.
Best service of Kafka on cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and easy to deploy. And also easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
They should include more tutorial on website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is best solution for Stream processing and message queue
Many Built-in Tools and Detailed Documentation and Learning Opportunities
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent provides many standard solutions to accelerate the time to market and development of proofs of concepts. These tools include connectors to commonly used software and easy-to-understand documentation on developing commonly used data streams using KSQL.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wouldn't say I liked Confluent's approach to partner enablement learning. I had a previous Confluent training account that couldn't be used for partner enablement learning since my company is a Confluent partner. The workaround is logging into the partner portal and then going to the training account; if you try to go to the training account, it won't recognize the partner credentials. A minor annoyance that doesn't severely inhibit learning Confluent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming data for real-time insight into the client's traditionally static, batch-based architecture. Confluent allows for creating a central nervous system of data for the entire enterprise, eliminating isolated data silhos.
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.
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
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.
Easiest way to get up running a fully featured kafka cluster
What do you like best about the product?
It requires just a few clicks to start a cluster.
The documentation is very good.
The support is reactive.
It works exactly like a native kafka cluster expect it's fully managed so you don't have to maintain it and can concentrate on your application development.
The sales team is also very nice. We were able to sign a contract that satisfy both of us to allow to grow on a multi-year basis.
The documentation is very good.
The support is reactive.
It works exactly like a native kafka cluster expect it's fully managed so you don't have to maintain it and can concentrate on your application development.
The sales team is also very nice. We were able to sign a contract that satisfy both of us to allow to grow on a multi-year basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to be very careful with the pricing. Even if you don't send any data, you have to pay for the number of partitions you have. The price can go up quickly for just a few hundred partitions.
The control center UI to visualize topic contents is not really good. You should consider using alternatives like Kowl which is much more performant and has a better UX.
The control center UI to visualize topic contents is not really good. You should consider using alternatives like Kowl which is much more performant and has a better UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Several things :
- We are streaming transactional changes between microservices applications (CDC using debezium)
- We are processing IOT Data
- We are processing and enriching data to integrate our applications with thirs parties
- We are streaming transactional changes between microservices applications (CDC using debezium)
- We are processing IOT Data
- We are processing and enriching data to integrate our applications with thirs parties
Overall Excellent Streaming Platform but need minor enhancements
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to scale up to any extent depending on the available commodity hardware in the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. For a person who is beginner in streaming systems, it is quite difficult to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our organization has a very large data volume that generates daily. This is payments-related data which is served for multiple reporting systems for insight. Confluent caters our need for the same.
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