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Confluent makes managing Kafka a breeze
What do you like best about the product?
The most valuable part of using Confluent is that it cares about the developer experience. The tools they provide are easy to use, so developers can focus on delivering business value and not worry about managing Kafka and its related components. Uptime with Confluent Cloud is top-rate; their support is knowledgable and helpful, and they are willing to jump on Zoom calls to help troubleshoot.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some configuration settings for Kafka Connect are not exposed on all connectors, and others have limits you cannot override. Lack of IDP-initiated SSO is frustrating, but there are workarounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluent makes managing Kafka and related services easy; the uptime and configuration work, they make monitoring Kafka easy, and provide an excellent user experience to view billing in near real-time. These things allow me to focus on building new products and delivering value to the company instead of concentrating on managing Kafka.
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Kafka made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent provides as much or as little assistance as needed to get you up and running with Kafka without the complexity and operational burden of running it yourself.
We prototype using local dockerized Kafka services and flip over to the managed equivalents in our live environments.
Even on a lower tier plan we see excellent uptime and have had no significant disruptions.
When we have had questions Confluent has been able to answer them and provide suggestions both within their offerings and outside of them.
Deployed and configured through Terraform to make infrastructure setup consistent.
We prototype using local dockerized Kafka services and flip over to the managed equivalents in our live environments.
Even on a lower tier plan we see excellent uptime and have had no significant disruptions.
When we have had questions Confluent has been able to answer them and provide suggestions both within their offerings and outside of them.
Deployed and configured through Terraform to make infrastructure setup consistent.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you are looking specifically for managed Kafka there is really no downside I see to using Confluent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka serves as the event-stream backbone of our data applications. Confluent provides managed Kafka services that keep our platform running without the distraction of managing Kafka directly.
Not cheap, but good service, support and UI
What do you like best about the product?
The service has been stable and reliable thus far, and communication with sales and support teams has been good. Overall good documentation - a few things here and there have not been up to date or detailed, but in most cases it's clear and sufficient. The UI is easy to use and provides helpful information regarding application performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have run into the issue of some configuration options which would have been useful for us not being available in managed connectors. However, I must note that their sales and support teams have been helpful in communicating regarding this issue and proactive in suggesting alternatives and in opening feature requests. We have also had initial struggles setting up connectivity with our existing infrastructure in AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Confluent Cloud thus far to replace an existing Elasticsearch indexing flow using commands by an event-driven approach using Kafka, which is more robust and performant. We are now moving on to other applications, also involving event stream processing.
Work with Kafka topics and ksqlDB
What do you like best about the product?
ksqlDB provides an excellent instrument to create ETL processes for enriching the data
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of restrictions in ksqlDB and I don't see any improvements in this direction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Create ETL for enriching data in realtime streaming
Review of confluent
What do you like best about the product?
It's a straightforward way of interacting with the Kafka ecosystem
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is very hard to use, and the documentation is out of sync
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's providing a wrapper and managed solution for using Kafka
Best service of Kafka on cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and easy to deploy. And also easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
They should include more tutorial on website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is best solution for Stream processing and message queue
Many Built-in Tools and Detailed Documentation and Learning Opportunities
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent provides many standard solutions to accelerate the time to market and development of proofs of concepts. These tools include connectors to commonly used software and easy-to-understand documentation on developing commonly used data streams using KSQL.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wouldn't say I liked Confluent's approach to partner enablement learning. I had a previous Confluent training account that couldn't be used for partner enablement learning since my company is a Confluent partner. The workaround is logging into the partner portal and then going to the training account; if you try to go to the training account, it won't recognize the partner credentials. A minor annoyance that doesn't severely inhibit learning Confluent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming data for real-time insight into the client's traditionally static, batch-based architecture. Confluent allows for creating a central nervous system of data for the entire enterprise, eliminating isolated data silhos.
Best managed kafka service for any scale
What do you like best about the product?
- Confluent cloud-managed Kafka service is the best in the industry. We have been using their managed Kafka service for more than 4 years now
- It abstracts the complexity of managing the Kafka clusters and helps us focus on building business applications rather than managing the infrastructure.
- It abstracts the complexity of managing the Kafka clusters and helps us focus on building business applications rather than managing the infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no downsides I can think of. If you are an enterprise customer and need a reliable Kafka infrastructure without the overhead of maintaining one yourself, confluent cloud is the go to solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Confluent kafka enables us to build real-time data applications without need of maintaining the kafka cluster ourselves.
- This is a huge time saver for application teams as they can focus on building their application than maintaining the cluster itself.
- Since it is managed service, it can be scaled up or scaled down easily
- It is able to handles millions of messages per minute without any performance issues
- This is a huge time saver for application teams as they can focus on building their application than maintaining the cluster itself.
- Since it is managed service, it can be scaled up or scaled down easily
- It is able to handles millions of messages per minute without any performance issues
So far so good
What do you like best about the product?
No need to self manage kafka clusters and kafka connect connectors.
What do you dislike about the product?
No option to whitelist IP addresses with access to kafka cluster
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A way to connect micro services with each other, message processing. Really useful that we can have multiple consumers processing same events.
Confluent Kafka has very much user friendly interface for viewing a topic's data and meta data.
What do you like best about the product?
GUI interface, SQL interaction, meta data showcase, topic information
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much i can think of, yet can be improved in the performance side
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used the confluent Kafka product.
Yeah was useful
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