What do you like best about the product?

Redpanda has revolutionized our use of Kafka, enhancing everything from deployment simplicity to WASM transformations, and significantly boosting speed! After nearly a decade of Kafka in production and numerous outages, Redpanda has proven to be a remarkable replacement—truly a game changer.

Features like WASM transform are essential for harnessing its full potential and replacing outdated custom software that many of us still use today for that aspect.

The cloud version is the icing on the cake. It eliminates excessive billing and alleviates GDPR concerns for Europe, as everything operates on our cloud, under our security, exactly where we want it. The support has been phenomenal too; despite occasional bugs, the team addresses issues incredibly quickly.

Redpanda has fundamentally changed how we work, resolving many persistent issues we faced with Kafka. It's the dawn of a new era.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing for now really. Maybe the Kafka client that could be replaced at some point by a dedicated protocol.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our entire data-pipeline is running via Redpanda. From analytics to event processing.