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Easy way to use Kafka without dealing without the need to stand it up yourself
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.
- 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/).
- 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.
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It all just works
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
Seamless Aiven Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Support. Top Notch.
Ease to spin up new services.
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!
aiven experience
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 :)
Can't complain
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.
All in one
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.
Aiven Kafka review
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.
Fast support. All my questions were answered very promptly.
What do you like best about the product?
The "self-service" approach. We can upgrade and downgrade as we like.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact we cannot have a free development environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We don't want to hire a Kafka cluster manager, it's not our core business. Having this as a service is much easier,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a professional support, Aiven is ahead of others.
Aiven Review
What do you like best about the product?
The thing I like best about aiven is that It's managed by someone else
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I dislike the most about aiven is the lack of Kafka connect
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event driven microservices
Aiven makes everything easier !
What do you like best about the product?
What i like about aiven is their support. They are answering really quickly and they help even the problem is not aiven related , I learned a lot of things from them(like pgbouncer) and im looking forward to work with them even more.
Another thing is that with aiven I dont have to worry about maintenance and HA.
Another thing is that with aiven I dont have to worry about maintenance and HA.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm really looking forward to be able to download the backup that aiven takes automatically.
and I want to be able to stream the database logs to another service
and I want to be able to stream the database logs to another service
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HA and maintenance and security
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