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It's been an amazing experience. The UI is intuitive.
What do you like best about the product?
The UI makes it very easy to interact...
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform constraints can be limiting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using a managed solution which allows us to focus on very important business value rather than battling platform issues around Kafka.
Working with Aiven has enabled us to iterate faster, provide easier access to our developers to interact with various entities.
Working with Aiven has enabled us to iterate faster, provide easier access to our developers to interact with various entities.
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I think it works overall very well, with a great web gui that is easily understood!
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to browse around web interface and easily peek at topics, seeing performance and such.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice if it was possible to actually trigger messages on topics, and peak at individual messages from topic in the web gui, but maybe that is already possible?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's great to dont have to manage your own kafka!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it and you'll never look back!
Kafka for good
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of integration features // using it with terraform
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation are correct but more documentations would be welcome
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transform an old school ETL oriented architecture to Event Driven Architecture
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- Product is constantly improving and adding features
- Lots of integration features
- Ability to do infrastructure as code
- Help to accelerate digital transformation
- Lots of integration features
- Ability to do infrastructure as code
- Help to accelerate digital transformation
Painless, very easy to set up.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, and having a managed system for you. Really brings down the time we spend on it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am unable to come up with anything right now. Currently happy with the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transitioning to cloud. Less management for us.
Using Aiven for hosted databases
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of setup. Also the ability to seamlessly move between cloud providers and regions.
I also like the cultre of the company, and the mentality of the employees.
I also like the cultre of the company, and the mentality of the employees.
What do you dislike about the product?
A more flexible, pr-use based pricing model, would be great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not having to operate kafka ourselves
The aiven kafka cluster was not very stable and we weren't able to reliably connect to it.
What do you like best about the product?
the user interface was ok, instructions were intuitive
What do you dislike about the product?
the kafka cluster was not very stable with our message production and customer support couldn't provide much assistance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
event driven architecture
Excellent value for money
What do you like best about the product?
- Helpful helpdesk, manages to solve issues quickly.
- Sales with a good technical background
- Sales with a good technical background
What do you dislike about the product?
- Some features are not available on the cheaper machines
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Have a kafka environment up & running in no time without having to manage it by ourselves.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the free trial
Aiven is a great service to have your managed elasticsearch
What do you like best about the product?
That I can have both managed postgres, elastic and kafka all in one place
What do you dislike about the product?
using terraform with aiven, it is easier through the GUI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
mainly having managed elastic
Recommendations to others considering the product:
That I can have both managed postgres, elastic and kafka all in one place
Simple to use. Seems to do everything right
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is simple but they seem to have thought of everything.
All the info you need to connect, which is what you primarily need to for a DB in the cloud, is provided simply and in a super obvious manner!
All the info you need to connect, which is what you primarily need to for a DB in the cloud, is provided simply and in a super obvious manner!
What do you dislike about the product?
They do not have a function to dump a database image, be it mysqldump or pg_dump.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were managing our database at EngineYard and we use an extension called TimescaleDB. Aiven provided support for this extension. Or rather, Timescale uses Aiven to provide a cloud-based solution.
Difficult to integrate with infrastructure as code
What do you like best about the product?
Everything that we deploy works flawlessly so far, but our deployment of choice is terraform and Aiven's terraform provider is quite immature, and poorly documented. This causes problems for us which Aiven have done good work to address some of, but still have some way to go
I like that it has write ahead logging, which cloudSQL doesn't have for cloudSQL postgres, Aiven are more up to date in this regard.
I like that it has write ahead logging, which cloudSQL doesn't have for cloudSQL postgres, Aiven are more up to date in this regard.
What do you dislike about the product?
your terraform documentation! plus your provider doesn't/didn't work as terraform providers should, violating basic assumptions of the terraform framework and causing me weeks of work when it should have been hours. The software felt untested, and this caused us a couple of weeks to sort out (which, to Aiven's credit, we did sort out)
Please see a list of terraform providers that manage to keep up to date enough that they can submit their documentation to the official terraform website https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html (that's 133 providers). IMO this is an absolute minimum if you're going to be releasing a terraform provider for an expensive paid for product.
This has totally coloured my view of Aiven because your service seems to be working flawlessly and it seems to have unjustly turned me off what seems to be an otherwise excellent product. Logging into the console is a genuinely pleasant experience but it is not a solution to a problem inside terraform - If it's not in terraform it makes it very difficult to interface with our automation.
Additionally, your Aiven_project_service resource is totally overloaded, I get that they probably share a parent object but I think they should be separate resources, When I'm configuring Postgres I don't want to also have to wade through the documentation on elastic cloud, kafka etc as well, this is compounded by the already lacking documentation, which forced me to manually inspect attributes of resources on runs.
Please forget the CEO's/CTO's you're showing your web console, and instead consider the people that will actually be using your software. The business (hopefully) doesn't run because they have sys admins clicking through a UI!
I'm sure your infra is as (declarative) code, there's of course very good reason for it; I want mine to be as well.
Please see a list of terraform providers that manage to keep up to date enough that they can submit their documentation to the official terraform website https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html (that's 133 providers). IMO this is an absolute minimum if you're going to be releasing a terraform provider for an expensive paid for product.
This has totally coloured my view of Aiven because your service seems to be working flawlessly and it seems to have unjustly turned me off what seems to be an otherwise excellent product. Logging into the console is a genuinely pleasant experience but it is not a solution to a problem inside terraform - If it's not in terraform it makes it very difficult to interface with our automation.
Additionally, your Aiven_project_service resource is totally overloaded, I get that they probably share a parent object but I think they should be separate resources, When I'm configuring Postgres I don't want to also have to wade through the documentation on elastic cloud, kafka etc as well, this is compounded by the already lacking documentation, which forced me to manually inspect attributes of resources on runs.
Please forget the CEO's/CTO's you're showing your web console, and instead consider the people that will actually be using your software. The business (hopefully) doesn't run because they have sys admins clicking through a UI!
I'm sure your infra is as (declarative) code, there's of course very good reason for it; I want mine to be as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building a bank! It's got write a head logging which cloudSQL doesn't have
Recommendations to others considering the product:
if possible wait until their terraform provider is mature, go with something with better infra as code unless Aiven gives you something that you can't do without
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