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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.
Confluent is a great platform, easy and fast up with speed
What do you like best about the product?
Making your data available in a modern, flexible and easy scalable solution. I like all connectors avilable and security features now and coming.
What do you dislike about the product?
A guidance of how to get up and running with confluent as code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration between our applications on different platforms and also making AI run as near as possible in realtime. These integrations makes us more productive and we have also been able to benefit from our events several times in new use cases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare your internal knowledge in event programming, usage of connectors can be more costly and might need dedicated clustering. However if you have a single cloud environment it will be effective and easy to use. You will be up and running with your first cluster in no time.
But remember to do your homework with a good event architecture and document your events in schemas, it will give you lots of benefits in the long run.
I have used both opensource Apache Kafka and confluent cloud.
But remember to do your homework with a good event architecture and document your events in schemas, it will give you lots of benefits in the long run.
I have used both opensource Apache Kafka and confluent cloud.
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
Good managed Kafka Cluster, a bit expensive however for connect and ksqldb
What do you like best about the product?
Managed Kafka cluster, confluent API, Great documentation and community
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is a bit prohibitive for the pay per use cluster since ksqldb creates so many internal topics (changelogs, repartitions) and the pricing for managed ksqldb is very constraining, and UDFs are not supported.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event driven microservices, stream processing pipelines, redefining our architecture where Kafka is the single source of truth. Productivity is not yet there yet since there is a certain learning curve and paradigm shift for developers on our team not yet acquired.
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.
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
Best Streaming Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Kafka topics store more data in comparison to Kinesis service provided by AWS. This gives more flexibility to handle large amount of data for our processing purposes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Managed service provides a better environment for our development and other purposes. It gives a plug and play feature to work with however when we talk about Kafka, we need to set up various things on our own which makes it a little complex in comparison to any managed service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Kafka to have the near real time ingestion data pipeline. It allows us to move the data as and when the data arrives in the staging layer which we later pick up to create any KPIs or KRIs.
Confluent for Ktables
What do you like best about the product?
Ktables from Confluent kafka streams is effectiv
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing model for confluent kafka and its products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use cases such as those related to real time streaming
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at the problem at hand and know the knitty-gritties of using this product
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