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Great developer experience
What do you like best about the product?
Really easy to use and well-implemented way to run PostgreSQL without headaches.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I can complain about is that I had to manually calculate the time offset for our maintenance window, which is a totally minor issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven greatly reduces our Ops requirements for managing databases.
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Aiven Apache Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Nice UI, nice terraform module, k8s operator, variety of cloud providers, ability to scale both vertically and horizontally. I like the way your documentation is structured and the fact that it is really concise.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are pros and cons of each point that I mention. 1. As for scalability: I would highly appreciate having a possibility to scale automatically somehow. It would be precious to be able to scale based on some metrics and Kafka usage and to set minimun and maximum number of nodes. Of course, Kafka scalability may be not that straight-forward due to the fact that scaling it would surely take some amount of time and may take a lot of time if the data volume is really high; but at least having an option to scale it up and down automatically would be cool and would imply reliability and assurance in the service. 2. As for documentation: documentation is concise but sometimes I would like to have a link to dive deeper into details on how that or another thing works. And just noticed that for example on this page: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/concepts.html, the underlined topics and the UI itself looks a bit poorer than the rest of your UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For now, we are just starting to use Aiven Apache Kafka, and we are in the middle of the consideration if to use it and how. From my side, I am an infrastructure engineer, and my benefits are to use a managed service, do not spend a lot of time and effort managing Kafka, describing it in IaC and so on.
Easy to find topics and read their content
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it was to look up topics (using search), view the messages that are on a particular topic and then decode the b64 and read the contents. We needed to look up a mongo change stream and found what we were looking for in this message 💪
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that would have been good was to see what kind of volume a particular topic has. For instance, we wanted to know just how many messages were on a mongo change stream in case we needed to do some caching on the consumer end to be more efficient querying the DB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At Wolt it helps when trying to communicate between different microservices. In our particular case we want to see when an object changes in the core mongo database and make some changes elsewhere in a separate system.
Obviously that's the benefits of Kafka :) but as far as Aiven goes it's great to have a managed solution and a UI for seeing messages / topics etc.
Obviously that's the benefits of Kafka :) but as far as Aiven goes it's great to have a managed solution and a UI for seeing messages / topics etc.
Very cool experience !
What do you like best about the product?
I could leverage some powerful workflow with the help the aiven-operator !
Integration of Prometheus monitoring is very cool as well.
And last but not the least, nice terraform provider.
Integration of Prometheus monitoring is very cool as well.
And last but not the least, nice terraform provider.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some documentation has been a little bit outdated, but the aiven team handle some of my pull requests to adjust the documentation/provided samples provided very quickly!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to serve a platform as a service and give a smoother experience to our software engineers team by leveraging the concept of infrastructure as a code.
Moderate
What do you like best about the product?
Not having to maintain or manage the Kafka cluster and all components around it like Zookeeper.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not what I have found yet. Might come up later when I start using it more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What Aiven does for us is to take care of the maintenance of Kafka and the products around it.
Friendly and Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
UI was very simple and friendly. Maintaining it using Terraform code was a great experience. I liked the feature of Aiven S3 connector.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially the UI was a bit complex but then I got it and it made my life easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven S3 connector solved the problem for me to dump the data into the S3 datalake. It was easy to use and integrate.
Setting up was extremely easy
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up was extremely easy.
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What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its all managed by aiven and needs no attention from us
Very useful with lot of features
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use and very user-friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing of the products is a little bit high for small companies and startups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving issues regarding integration with external customers.
Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Best tool and all environment info at one place and easy to maintain
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing found as of now. Nothing found as of now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Aiven's hosted and managed-Apache Kafka, we can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard.
You can't go wrong picking Aiven for Postgres
What do you like best about the product?
I've found Aiven's support for Postgres to be much more full-featured than other platforms provide. The uptime and operational stability is (IMO) best in class for postgres, much better than you get from e.g. RDS. I love that it comes stock with a much wider set of postgres extensions than you get from other cloud providers - being able to opt in to using Timescale or PostGIS when you need to is key.
What do you dislike about the product?
My minor complaint is that I'm a Pulumi IAC user and I'd like for Aiven to have better support for Pulumi, so that we could spin up infrastructure from within our IAC tool of choice. Ultimately though this isn't the most major deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The stability and uptime guarantees that Aiven provides allows our team to not have to hire a postgres DBA to use our database. It's really beneficial because we put some serious load on postgres and it's great that we still don't have to hire someone just for this need.
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