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Delightful when it comes to cluster management, not as much when it comes to connectors
What do you like best about the product?
Let's start with the good stuff - their cluster management is top-notch! I was impressed by how smooth and efficient it was to manage data streams and workflows. The user interface is intuitive, making it a breeze to set up and navigate through everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, I must admit that I had some struggles with their connectors. It wasn't as straightforward as I had hoped, and I encountered a few hiccups along the way. I wish the process was a bit more streamlined and easier to grasp.
Despite the connector challenges, the overall experience with Confluent has been positive. They truly excel in cluster management, and their customer support was quick to help me whenever I hit a roadblock.
Despite the connector challenges, the overall experience with Confluent has been positive. They truly excel in cluster management, and their customer support was quick to help me whenever I hit a roadblock.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is solving the problem of managing clusters and provisioning infrastructure for Kafka, which benefits me by providing a reliable and efficient solution for my data streaming needs. It allows me to focus on my business objectives and data analysis without the worry of managing the complex infrastructure behind it.
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.
Streaming data made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent makes streaming of data easy, managable and provides scale which enterprise software needs, Confluent dashboard helps setting up, docs are good and support multiple platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation and tutorial for the beginners can be improved, this can help in onboarding more devs to use confluent product and its dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is solving the issue of helping companies scale ther stream services and manage everything, all at once through its intuitive dashbaord.
Best Platform for reinventing your Data Architecture
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent has eradicated the management constraints of self-managed Kafka Architecture enabling users to move from monolith to Microservice architecture. In Data Engineering, Confluent provides plugins to power real-time data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Confluent can open source more plugins under community License.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is a reinvention on top of Apache Kafka and provides several other features like Kafka Connect and KsqlDB. Instead of managing the Kafka architecture and connectors, one can focus more on building upon the architecture available.
Easy configuration VIA UI
What do you like best about the product?
The Interface to configure new topics and how i can monitor mi throughput and networks
What do you dislike about the product?
Not knowing how exactly my usage is billed generates trouble reporting the billables.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handling event processing through several places.
Making managing extensive data analysis without losing data in between processes.
Bussiness has fewer errors and more traceability of the events.
Making managing extensive data analysis without losing data in between processes.
Bussiness has fewer errors and more traceability of the events.
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.
Confluent makes managing Kafka a breeze
What do you like best about the product?
The most valuable part of using Confluent is that it cares about the developer experience. The tools they provide are easy to use, so developers can focus on delivering business value and not worry about managing Kafka and its related components. Uptime with Confluent Cloud is top-rate; their support is knowledgable and helpful, and they are willing to jump on Zoom calls to help troubleshoot.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some configuration settings for Kafka Connect are not exposed on all connectors, and others have limits you cannot override. Lack of IDP-initiated SSO is frustrating, but there are workarounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent makes managing Kafka and related services easy; the uptime and configuration work, they make monitoring Kafka easy, and provide an excellent user experience to view billing in near real-time. These things allow me to focus on building new products and delivering value to the company instead of concentrating on managing Kafka.
Kafka made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent provides as much or as little assistance as needed to get you up and running with Kafka without the complexity and operational burden of running it yourself.
We prototype using local dockerized Kafka services and flip over to the managed equivalents in our live environments.
Even on a lower tier plan we see excellent uptime and have had no significant disruptions.
When we have had questions Confluent has been able to answer them and provide suggestions both within their offerings and outside of them.
Deployed and configured through Terraform to make infrastructure setup consistent.
We prototype using local dockerized Kafka services and flip over to the managed equivalents in our live environments.
Even on a lower tier plan we see excellent uptime and have had no significant disruptions.
When we have had questions Confluent has been able to answer them and provide suggestions both within their offerings and outside of them.
Deployed and configured through Terraform to make infrastructure setup consistent.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you are looking specifically for managed Kafka there is really no downside I see to using Confluent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka serves as the event-stream backbone of our data applications. Confluent provides managed Kafka services that keep our platform running without the distraction of managing Kafka directly.
Not cheap, but good service, support and UI
What do you like best about the product?
The service has been stable and reliable thus far, and communication with sales and support teams has been good. Overall good documentation - a few things here and there have not been up to date or detailed, but in most cases it's clear and sufficient. The UI is easy to use and provides helpful information regarding application performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have run into the issue of some configuration options which would have been useful for us not being available in managed connectors. However, I must note that their sales and support teams have been helpful in communicating regarding this issue and proactive in suggesting alternatives and in opening feature requests. We have also had initial struggles setting up connectivity with our existing infrastructure in AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Confluent Cloud thus far to replace an existing Elasticsearch indexing flow using commands by an event-driven approach using Kafka, which is more robust and performant. We are now moving on to other applications, also involving event stream processing.
Work with Kafka topics and ksqlDB
What do you like best about the product?
ksqlDB provides an excellent instrument to create ETL processes for enriching the data
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of restrictions in ksqlDB and I don't see any improvements in this direction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Create ETL for enriching data in realtime streaming
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