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A Good Stable Kafka Platform
What do you like best about the product?
I've been running Kafka for a year in production now and it can be very complex to manage and recover if you ever find yourself in that that scenario. Aiven offers easy upgrade paths and the Avro schema library is still quite buggy in the console but solid when used within Kafka which is invaluable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Aiven console is quite buggy and lacks features for user management. We would like more granular control over the RBAC system but at the moment it seems to be admin or nothing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka is the core of out platform and to have it fully managed so we can focus on building the tech around it gives us great peace of mind.
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first steps with aivrn kafka
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact of having a web based app to browse the topics and environments. Accessing user groups, partitions...
Intuitive for basic use.
Intuitive for basic use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The secured access is not explained easily and also the no easy access to list messages on a topic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka was a solution chosen in our project to handle massive messages communications, aiven has made the use of kafka plateform easier
Easy to get started with Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to get started with Kafka. Nice GUI that was easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Fixed Puclic IP of Kafka Connect for white listening purposes would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintanance of Kafka clusters. Creating POCs on Kafka which if you need to host the Kafka cluster yourself is much more time consusming.
It's just Kafka made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Having a nice interface with really good options to better configure and setup kafka topics and so.
What do you dislike about the product?
I struggled a bit at first to reset an offset from a topic, since we had all those good options I thought there was an easier way of doing that, but yeah, you can always make use of the confluence platform to do it directly through its interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High traffic messages regarding events inside our platform.
Surviving from dataloss
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to rollback to exact second with ease
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything that I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No need for DBA, backups are taken care for you automiatcally
Great Kafka as a service
What do you like best about the product?
The transparent pricing
Back office interface
Terraform provider
Back office interface
Terraform provider
What do you dislike about the product?
Cannot choose disk size precisely
No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment)
No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka cluster hosting
Aiven is great!
What do you like best about the product?
I like the all-in-one feel of Aiven best. It's like a swiss army knife for doing DBA stuff. I don't have to worry about setting up repl, getting slow query logs, or backups - it's all just done for me!
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love a view that can show me replication topology graphically. I'd also love it if at least the postgres service provided a breakdown of how disk space was being used rather than just overall disk usage. It would help spot things like repl logs piling up for example.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven has made it super easy to do all of the devops kind of stuff associated with running our data stores. We don't need much in-house specialized knowledge and feel like it's less likely we'll miss something basic (backups, etc) only to find out when it's too late.
Aiven was a good fit for a startup just getting into Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We were comparing Aiven to Confluent, as we wanted a managed solution for our small engineering team. Confluent limited bandwidth and required an up-front commitment for their enterprise tier, whereas we just wanted a monthly bill based on compute power. We also wanted managed Schema Registry and (bonus) Connect, which Aiven had right out of the box. We enjoyed the free trial with the managed components as it let us build out our infrastructure. Also, Aiven just "felt right" when we started using it via the console.
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though it is insecure, I'd like an option for plaintext connections. It would make it easier to prototype and get started, which was when we were doing our vendor comparing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a robust system for collecting user interaction events (used for analytics) and inter-service communication for our backend components. So far we are still building, but we enjoy the ability to build real-time applications (our existing Kinesis solution has about a 15 min delay for consuming backend events).
Great interface with knowledgeable support team.
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is intuitive. The support team is helpful although it takes a while to answer.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not PCI-DSS compliant which is a requirement for our business. To be able to use Aiven we will move some tables that have cardholder data to an infrastructure that we have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To make the replicas in different cloud companies is an unnecessary complication and Aiven solves that for us.
Easy to use high quality service
What do you like best about the product?
I can upgrade the service plan of a database quickly and easily with no downtime. Also the point-in-time backup gives a lot of reassurance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited role and permissions management features for administrators, but nothing we couldn't work around easily and I think more granularity is in the roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Aiven to host a production postgres DB which handles any transactional and also any personal data for our API. The benefits are fast and easy hosting without us having to implement infrastructure or security. We can easily spin up DBs for dev and test environments.
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