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Aiven for Apache Kafka

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    Real Estate

Great MQ as a service

  • February 04, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Not worring about infra is the best thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far, everything that I needed from Aiven was ok.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since we have a microservices architecture we have a lot of events to notify to a lot of services, so, this is what we accomplish with Aiven and without worring about infra in general, just with the business logic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use, fair price and stable.

    Financial Services

Great experience, very easy to get up and running

  • January 17, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
I like how quickly we can set up and tear down a Kafka cluster. It made the trial painless. Support was on point and I'm glad we can peer it to our AWS VPC.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, so far, we are having a great experience with Aiven.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are building an event-based architecture so we're going to use Kafka for producing and consuming event messages.

    Patrick P.

Aiven Kafka

  • December 31, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about our Kafka setup on Aiven is they supply us with a hassle free, managed, extremely reliable service. No need for any Ops on our side.
What do you dislike about the product?
Could have a better topics/schema registry UI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We created independent teams, with independent technology, we're using Kafka to do it

    Computer Networking

Easy way to use Kafka without dealing without the need to stand it up yourself

  • December 10, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
- Dealing with the complexity of installing and running the Kafka is taken away from you.
- It had sensible configuration out-of-the-box so I didn't have to deal with the myriad of Kafka settings.
- Support for log compacted topics.
- Integration with other third party services.
- I also liked having a 30-day trial period.
What do you dislike about the product?
- The server certificate is not signed by a public CA, so additional configuration is needed for clients to add a truststore. My guess is that each server cert is dynamically generated for each new user doing the trial, so this is a minor issue. But I wonder if a wildcard cert signed by a public CA would still give the security you want, and give the convenience of not worrying about a truststore.
- Aiven requires clients use a client certificate. This is reasonable, but adds friction for trial users who need to deal with creating a keystore for any clients they want to use. If there were documentation that showed the explicit steps to create the keystore (and trustore, from the previous point), that would be very helpful. You could go even further and pre-create the keystore and trustore, along with instructions for how to configure clients to use them, such as a Java client, of the Kafka Tool GUI (http://www.kafkatool.com/).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work at Kaazing and we are exploring a partnership with Aiven. We have a hosted platform that streams data from Kafka brokers to browser and mobile apps. We are looking at how easy it is stream from hosted Kafka solutions like Aiven, rather than prospects having to install and run their own Kafka broker clusters.

    Computer Software

It all just works

  • November 13, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
The Kafka service have been great for our company. We switched from Heroku's offering. It was easy to setup and configure. We are using it for Postgres instances as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything has worked great, no dislikes yet for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Database hosting and kafka hosted instances

    Chandan B.

Seamless Aiven Kafka

  • November 11, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
Support. Top Notch.
Ease to spin up new services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features like setting the retention of topic in milliseconds/seconds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do not need to worry about managing the cluster!

    Computer & Network Security

aiven experience

  • October 25, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
Your process to get working is very easy for us , and it matches the way we want to get things work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Your footprint, our whole team is in Bangalore. Having someone there will be whole lot easier to have timely conversation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need managed kafka :)

    Verified User in Computer Software

Can't complain

  • August 08, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
It's nice to not have to worry about managing Kafka as much.
What do you dislike about the product?
The classic issue of abstracting stuff away from you leaves with with lessened control when you need it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reducing dev time spent managing infrastructure.

    Consumer Services

All in one

  • July 26, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
Good one stop shop for services that bigger enterprises charge more than what we're willing to pay.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of their API is a little odd and there are a number of manual touch-points in the engagement that we're wary of.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a Kafka cluster without having to run it ourselves. It was far cheaper than hiring a team to run it for us.

    Andrew M.

Aiven Kafka review

  • December 04, 2017
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What do you like best about the product?
I like that I don't have to deal with kafka maintenance.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that there were a way to same / view all messages moving through kafka so that I could debug manually when necessary. My stream is low volume.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use kafka as our message broker in a distributed system setup with Lagom.

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