We had a legacy website collecting user data as they logged into the portal. We wanted to capture that information in Snowflake and store it in a mobile app. We used Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud for real-time data streaming.
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Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We use it mainly for Kafka usecases in our company and it's design makes things simple like what are the accesses for the topic and all, what data is flowing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think login is quite glitchy, each time I refresh it use to get logged out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basically Kafka usecases.
Confluent is one of the best managed platform for Kafka.
What do you like best about the product?
1. Confluent UI/Control Center: We can easily access all confluent platform components from here. This is very useful when it comes to monitor streaming data.
2. Schema Registry: We can easily check the schemas associated with different topics even we can check the previous versions also. This is possible through rest call also but confluent put everything together to make developers or administrators life easier.
3. KSQLDB/KSQL: KSQLDB is also a confluent offering, we are using it to modify streaming data or applying filters.
4. Connectors: Confluent comes with connectors idea that helps developers to reduce time and efforts to write kafka stream applications from scratch. We can just use production ready source or sink connectors.
2. Schema Registry: We can easily check the schemas associated with different topics even we can check the previous versions also. This is possible through rest call also but confluent put everything together to make developers or administrators life easier.
3. KSQLDB/KSQL: KSQLDB is also a confluent offering, we are using it to modify streaming data or applying filters.
4. Connectors: Confluent comes with connectors idea that helps developers to reduce time and efforts to write kafka stream applications from scratch. We can just use production ready source or sink connectors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Confluent documentation needs improvement. Sometimes it is very difficult to find out how to meet specific use case. They shpuld create some videos or detailed documents. Other than that everything is nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is reducing kafka platform setup time and effort.
Has good stability and helps with real-time data streaming feature
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It is a single platform to publish any information on any given topic. In case of huge transactions on the web or mobile apps, it helps you capture real-time data and analyze it.
What needs improvement?
There could be an in-built feature for data analysis.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product’s stability a nine out of ten. There is room for improvement as we need to put some effort into setting it up to develop use cases.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is highly scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support services are good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup requires effort to deploy in the cloud or local environments. Once the servers and other prerequisites are ready, it is simple. It took us one month to complete the process. However, the approximate deployment time depends on particular use cases.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented the product in-house.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud and rate it a ten out of ten.
Confluent review
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent allowed me to easily build applications with the ease of integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not comprehensive in documentation which made it a bit inconvenient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming large amount of data/events for analysis and storage to make business driven decisions.
Confluent is one of the best platforms for secure data streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent provides a great deal of comfort and convenience to software developers looking to build secure and sustainable applications, I really liked the distributed systems including Kafka and KSQL DB which not only saved quality time but also made me a better developer.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think somewhat the documentation was a bit less detailed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By creating a centralised system in Apache Kafka, message and big data streaming can become very easy. It allows developers to utilise quality time more on the business logic rather than staying concerned about data security and privacy.
Confluent - Real-Time Data Streaming!
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the documentation and real-life examples for using Confluent. I like how they provide as many "out of the box" features reducing development time. I haven't come across another product or toolset that integrates with this amount of apps either.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish schema validation was available in the dev cluster. The pricing tiers seem to have some hidden costs that I think should be better understood and transparent.,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving away from our slow ETL process
seamless experience
What do you like best about the product?
Smooth integration, and resilence and stability.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing as of now which I dont like in confluence
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
event based architecture
Good
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent Cloud offers faster scaling as well as the ability to shrink clusters when demand reduces, lowering your overall total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensuring you don't pay for unused infrastructure. With the ability to scale up and down, businesses save on TCO by avoiding wasted capacity from over-provisioning.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sistem send to much emails and it's tiring
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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It's a great tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the speed of the queues and record, everything went well with the connectors and KSQL. KSQL seems like a very helpfull tool to handle the streams and makes more easier review the topics.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't like the fact that I'm not able to see which record was successfully sent to a destination, when it fails I'm able to see the details in the DLQ topic but when it's successful I'm not able to see it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is the current solution for a huge migration of data, we're changing our source of truth, and confluent helps us with the migration, and the powerfull KSQL performs as ETL
Delightful when it comes to cluster management, not as much when it comes to connectors
What do you like best about the product?
Let's start with the good stuff - their cluster management is top-notch! I was impressed by how smooth and efficient it was to manage data streams and workflows. The user interface is intuitive, making it a breeze to set up and navigate through everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
However, I must admit that I had some struggles with their connectors. It wasn't as straightforward as I had hoped, and I encountered a few hiccups along the way. I wish the process was a bit more streamlined and easier to grasp.
Despite the connector challenges, the overall experience with Confluent has been positive. They truly excel in cluster management, and their customer support was quick to help me whenever I hit a roadblock.
Despite the connector challenges, the overall experience with Confluent has been positive. They truly excel in cluster management, and their customer support was quick to help me whenever I hit a roadblock.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent is solving the problem of managing clusters and provisioning infrastructure for Kafka, which benefits me by providing a reliable and efficient solution for my data streaming needs. It allows me to focus on my business objectives and data analysis without the worry of managing the complex infrastructure behind it.
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