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Easiest path to production Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We had a working Kafka cluster in minutes that was easy to experiment with and run various load testing scenarios. When we switched to a production load it was just as simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had some configuration issues early because of signup on their site directly vs through the cloud marketplace, eventually got it sorted - but was a hassle. Depending on your architecture and usage price can be fairly high. So far we are happy with overall cost vs managing our own.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a reliable messaging infrastructure with: easy polyglot support, reliable replay, batched message handling, automated scaling, and downstream integrations (connectors). Confluent delivers it all with a slick ops UI. For fully managed Kafka, we don't see any competitor that comes close to Confluent.
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Easiest way to get up running a fully featured kafka cluster
What do you like best about the product?
It requires just a few clicks to start a cluster.
The documentation is very good.
The support is reactive.
It works exactly like a native kafka cluster expect it's fully managed so you don't have to maintain it and can concentrate on your application development.
The sales team is also very nice. We were able to sign a contract that satisfy both of us to allow to grow on a multi-year basis.
The documentation is very good.
The support is reactive.
It works exactly like a native kafka cluster expect it's fully managed so you don't have to maintain it and can concentrate on your application development.
The sales team is also very nice. We were able to sign a contract that satisfy both of us to allow to grow on a multi-year basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to be very careful with the pricing. Even if you don't send any data, you have to pay for the number of partitions you have. The price can go up quickly for just a few hundred partitions.
The control center UI to visualize topic contents is not really good. You should consider using alternatives like Kowl which is much more performant and has a better UX.
The control center UI to visualize topic contents is not really good. You should consider using alternatives like Kowl which is much more performant and has a better UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Several things :
- We are streaming transactional changes between microservices applications (CDC using debezium)
- We are processing IOT Data
- We are processing and enriching data to integrate our applications with thirs parties
- We are streaming transactional changes between microservices applications (CDC using debezium)
- We are processing IOT Data
- We are processing and enriching data to integrate our applications with thirs parties
Best Streaming Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Kafka topics store more data in comparison to Kinesis service provided by AWS. This gives more flexibility to handle large amount of data for our processing purposes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Managed service provides a better environment for our development and other purposes. It gives a plug and play feature to work with however when we talk about Kafka, we need to set up various things on our own which makes it a little complex in comparison to any managed service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Kafka to have the near real time ingestion data pipeline. It allows us to move the data as and when the data arrives in the staging layer which we later pick up to create any KPIs or KRIs.
Confluent for Ktables
What do you like best about the product?
Ktables from Confluent kafka streams is effectiv
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing model for confluent kafka and its products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use cases such as those related to real time streaming
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at the problem at hand and know the knitty-gritties of using this product
Overall best but few shortcomings
What do you like best about the product?
Compared to AWS kinesis, it does not have any message limits and highly customized and scalable streaming technology.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is lacking in terms of managed service and detailed information regarding the message delivery. There could be major enhancements in terms of enterprise support that we can use in AWS kinesis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this software in a few of the POCs where we are streaming data from MS SQL server (operational data store) to Oracle server(for analytics) using pyspark and confluent kafka through hive tables. This is being done using Oracle CDC connector to implement DWH requirements.
Confluent- Solving streaming problems
What do you like best about the product?
Kstreams from confluent are the most helpful to me
What do you dislike about the product?
Problematic in case of higher workloads and requests
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming problems and use cases. It can be integrated along with kafka so a good fit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check whether your client is ready to pay a cost or is happy in open source
Effective Confluent products
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent Kafka, Schema Registry, Streams
What do you dislike about the product?
Apache Kafka is more popular and more handy among everybody.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
POC related use cases where we feel we need more than just Apache Kafka
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Choose the right fitment according to your business needs
Overall Excellent Streaming Platform but need minor enhancements
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to scale up to any extent depending on the available commodity hardware in the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. For a person who is beginner in streaming systems, it is quite difficult to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our organization has a very large data volume that generates daily. This is payments-related data which is served for multiple reporting systems for insight. Confluent caters our need for the same.
Using Confluent for data streaming on banking project
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, just download and start configure.
Helpfull control panel via browser.
Helpfull control panel via browser.
What do you dislike about the product?
The control panel view on browser sometimes doesn't sync realtime.
Documentation about troubleshoot configuration is still limitless.
Documentation about troubleshoot configuration is still limitless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project data stream can be reached by confluent platform.
Cool Product
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, Onboarding the application is simple, good documentation about the functionality available in the tool. Out of the box, monitoring is available and APIs are available as well
What do you dislike about the product?
Few of the connectors are still need to have better logging and monitoring, some of the connectors are not available on the confluent cloud as fully managed connectors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices. benefits are horizontal scaling, easy configuration for the expanding if needed and easy to on-board new system and use of connectors
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