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Very happy with Aiven
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, straightforward user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be better explanation about certificantes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Timeseries data queueing. Load balancing and dealing with high traffic times.
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Wry good
What do you like best about the product?
It's stable even in low cost plans. Very good
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't see msgs and search individuals. Fix it pls
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Realtime
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Very Easy product to configure and use
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of configuration and upgrades. Nice product
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface is very intuitive; however, further enhancements will make it more so,.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data replication
Awesome team, awesome product
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setup and maintenance. Aiven really takes out the complexity for us to host Kafka.
The setup is very reliable and can be easily scaled without any interruptions.
Their support team is quick to react and do an outstanding job.
I've been working with them for some years now and it's an absolute pleasure.
Many thanks to all at Aiven <3
The setup is very reliable and can be easily scaled without any interruptions.
Their support team is quick to react and do an outstanding job.
I've been working with them for some years now and it's an absolute pleasure.
Many thanks to all at Aiven <3
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far, they go the extra mile to make sure their customers are happy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can implement a fully event driven service architecture without worrying about maintaining a Kafka cluster,
which can get quite complex.
which can get quite complex.
Pretty convenient experience
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to create a Kafka cluster and don't need too much professional knowledge about it.
Easy to maintain.
Multi-cloud choices.
Easy to maintain.
Multi-cloud choices.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some differences between original Kafka & Aiven Kafka experiences, including the management way, etc.
But it's okay to have these differences, just need time to adapt to them.
But it's okay to have these differences, just need time to adapt to them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Kafka as usual.
Aiven Kafka can save us lots of time to create & configure the cluster.
Aiven Kafka can save us lots of time to create & configure the cluster.
We are using timescale with IaC and it was awesome!
What do you like best about the product?
the IaC works phenomenal, well done team!
What do you dislike about the product?
it would be awesome if I can create users on PG using IaC
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are deploying our new analytics system and we use timescale for the time series db
Very cool tech for hyperscalers.
What do you like best about the product?
You can switch your hyperscalers on demand. Very easy frontend - cool features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Absolutely nothing. Smooth salesprocess, nices demo time!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We don't need to host kafka on our own. We can focus on our prduct and not on delivering reliable kafka servcies.
Aiven takes care of major overhead of managing a kafka cluster and provides seamless upgrades.
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to get started. It provides necessary observability in terms of cluster health and topic statistics.
What do you dislike about the product?
While we were doing the mandatory version upgrade, the upgrade wasn't zero downtime exactly. But restarting services at our end fixed the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Aiven Kafka for our central message bus needs, and it has been remarkably reliable and efficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have enjoyed my experience with Aiven Kafka so far. We have been using it in Production for more than a year now and have not faced any issues.
SAS platform for Managed Kafka service which could be started in no time
What do you like best about the product?
Easy and simplistic UI and management tools. There are good blogs and documentations which comes in handy for connecting from local. Upgrades are simple and one click operation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pagination of the topics. If any action is done, it always takes you to the 1st page. Sorting on various parameters of the topic like partition, retaintion etc. Would prefer to have some sdk provided to connect from code easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Capture CDC and other events. Easy and simple without any management headeche. Reduces management overhead and increase productivity.
Easy to set up
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven was extremely easy to set-up and the support has been so far been great. The free trial was also nicely set up.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tiers could be structured in more flexible manner for very specific use cases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having scalable database for Saas software that is being developed
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