Apache Kafka Reviews

We are a service implementer and we supply this solution to our customers. I'm a company co-founder and we are customers of Apache. 

The solution has improved our functionality, it's one of the best streaming platforms I've used. 

I'd like to see improvement in terms of observability.

I've been using this product for the last five years on and off. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable.

The initial setup is straightforward, it's not complicated.

This is an open-source product.

I rate this solution nine out of 10. 

I like Kafka's flexibility, stability, reliability, and robustness.

Kafka has a lot of monitors, but sometimes it's most important to just have a simple monitor. Improvements to Kafka's management would be nice, but it's not so necessary for me. There are a lot of consoles that offer a better view than Kafka. Some are free, and some are paid, but I'm thinking about streaming. For example, if you connect more streams to a component in the same queue, how will it integrate to recognize the flow and the message?

I've been using Kafka for more than two years.

Kafka is stable. Defining our user base is hard because Kafka influences the whole company, so you could say around 100 users. Kafka is a core system, so it affects all users we choose to link to the primary key.

I previously used IBM MQ. 

The first time we tried to deploy Kafka, it seemed a little complicated, but the second try went better. Sometimes it isn't easy to set up the necessary communication or estimate how many partitions we need. Some applications have a vast amount of data, so we have to consider how to improve the performance and not increase the transfer times.

I rate Apache Kafka nine out of 10. I think it's one of the best tools on the internet.