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Kafka as it Should be
What do you like best about the product?
Kafka-compatible in an easier to consume, faster and cheaper package. Great company to work with and delivers
What do you dislike about the product?
Redpanda are still adding features but also remaining innovative
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming is at the heart of complex systems and for Fintechs this capability is critical yet also complex to implement, scale and manage.
Redpanda provides the heart of our streaming solutions - and as cloud hosted service removes much of the implementations and operational overhead.
Redpanda have taken the opportunity to learn from the open source project with a simpler and more scalable approach yet with kafka compatibility that support and integration into the wider kafka ecosytem
Redpanda provides the heart of our streaming solutions - and as cloud hosted service removes much of the implementations and operational overhead.
Redpanda have taken the opportunity to learn from the open source project with a simpler and more scalable approach yet with kafka compatibility that support and integration into the wider kafka ecosytem
Game changer.
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Features like WASM transform are essential for harnessing its full potential and replacing outdated custom software that many of us still use today for that aspect.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.
Features like WASM transform are essential for harnessing its full potential and replacing outdated custom software that many of us still use today for that aspect.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.
Amazing Product and ever more amazing people!
What do you like best about the product?
- > Easy to Setup and Use
- > True partners, than just another vendor - great support for custom design/ use-cases etc.
-> BYOC option
-> Great UI
-> Get a real-time platform setup and ready in almost no time.
-> Easy to integrate with other services.
- > True partners, than just another vendor - great support for custom design/ use-cases etc.
-> BYOC option
-> Great UI
-> Get a real-time platform setup and ready in almost no time.
-> Easy to integrate with other services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Been with the product and people for quite some time now and have seen the product evolve quite a lot with so much good improvements and add-ons.
A few missing pieces (which I believe are in the pipeline) are around programmatic ACL/Topic setup : something like a CRD so its easy to integrate and manage it into a CI/CD pipeline than do it manually on UI...but I am hopeful, this will come soon!
A few missing pieces (which I believe are in the pipeline) are around programmatic ACL/Topic setup : something like a CRD so its easy to integrate and manage it into a CI/CD pipeline than do it manually on UI...but I am hopeful, this will come soon!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides us with a streaming platform - easy to integrate and manage..to allow us to build important capabilities such as ML based Real time Fraud Engine etc.
Best Kafka solution in the market
What do you like best about the product?
I love their performance, scalability, deployment options...
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love to have more connectors to third party platforms
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Redpanda to connect our services and storages. We are also starting to use it to connect our product and salesforce. It allows us to deliver realtime data platform
Rock Solid Technology with World Class Support
What do you like best about the product?
We're using RedPanda to build our reactive event-firehose for our upcoming video games. I've used Apache Kafka since it was open-sourced, and believe me when I tell you, there is no better version of the Kafka protocol on the market. The technology is rock solid from both a stability and performance aspect. I have the upmost respect for their engineering team at RedPanda. They absolutely obsess over the lowest level implementation detail, as opposed to "Just get it working". Performance to them is measured in the microseconds, not milliseconds. Their attention to detail gives me the confidence that our data isn't just going to get to its destination fast, but it will get there safely.
Their tooling (even for open source) makes our engineers far more productive than if they were using Apache Kafka. It's easy for our engineers to get a local RedPanda running to both try and implement new ideas. Finally, all of our existing tools work with RedPanda (Kafka) out-of-the-box without any sort of makeshift changes.
The support team at RedPanda have been oustanding at every step of our journey. There is no better team equipped to get you to where you need to go.
Their tooling (even for open source) makes our engineers far more productive than if they were using Apache Kafka. It's easy for our engineers to get a local RedPanda running to both try and implement new ideas. Finally, all of our existing tools work with RedPanda (Kafka) out-of-the-box without any sort of makeshift changes.
The support team at RedPanda have been oustanding at every step of our journey. There is no better team equipped to get you to where you need to go.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having leveraged RedPanda and their team for the past year, and their technology since it was first open-source, I can confidently say there's very little to nothing left on the table of desire.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RedPanda is being used to build our self-service data analytics platform to empower our engineers to build better and more meaningful games.
Streamlining Data Management with Ease and Speed
What do you like best about the product?
Redpanda is very easy use, making data management a cinch. Its intuitive interface guides you through tasks effortlessly, whether you're importing, analyzing, or visualizing data. Migration from any other competitor is very straight forward and redpanda team is always there to help you and guide with any requests you may have.
What sets this app apart is its robust functionality. It offers a range of tools for data cleansing, transformation, advanced analytics, and visualization, all in one place.
Security is a top priority with built-in encryption and access controls, ensuring your data stays safe. Plus, the app grows with your needs, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes.
In summary, the RedPanda simplifies data management without compromising on security or functionality. It's a must-have for anyone looking to make sense of their data quickly and easily.
What sets this app apart is its robust functionality. It offers a range of tools for data cleansing, transformation, advanced analytics, and visualization, all in one place.
Security is a top priority with built-in encryption and access controls, ensuring your data stays safe. Plus, the app grows with your needs, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes.
In summary, the RedPanda simplifies data management without compromising on security or functionality. It's a must-have for anyone looking to make sense of their data quickly and easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few drawbacks worth mentioning. Firstly, the absence of kSQL functionality limits users who rely on this specific query language for data manipulation. However it is acheivable by hosting your own kSQL cluster.
Additionally, while the app boasts strong security features, there is room for improvement in user management and access control, which could enhance the overall security posture.
Furthermore, while the user interface is generally intuitive, some users may find it occasionally lags, particularly when handling large datasets. While this lag is not a significant issue, it may detract from the overall user experience for some individuals who prefer a more seamless and modern interface.
Additionally, while the app boasts strong security features, there is room for improvement in user management and access control, which could enhance the overall security posture.
Furthermore, while the user interface is generally intuitive, some users may find it occasionally lags, particularly when handling large datasets. While this lag is not a significant issue, it may detract from the overall user experience for some individuals who prefer a more seamless and modern interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Streaming and Data Governance
Solid product with great and efficient support
What do you like best about the product?
Red Panda has been our choice when we wanted to migrate our data pipeline to a stream-oriented approach, and since then, we've been very happy with the choice.
The support team is great and guides you through every step during the integration, and being able to deploy it in our cloud infrastructure /BYOC) was also a critical feature for us.
To sum it up: Great product, great support!
The support team is great and guides you through every step during the integration, and being able to deploy it in our cloud infrastructure /BYOC) was also a critical feature for us.
To sum it up: Great product, great support!
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface sometimes falls a bit short, and you have to do the more complex stuff via the CLI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Panda is the backbone of our event-oriented data pipeline.
It hhelped us migrate our stack from a batch-oriented architecture to an event-oriented architecture.
It hhelped us migrate our stack from a batch-oriented architecture to an event-oriented architecture.
Redpanda
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to install/upgrade/manage on self hosted. The performance are great.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some limits on the serverless and cloud versions. The helm chart for self hosted is ok, but missing some secrets configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing kafka is a pain.
We need a kafka compatible solution with topic storage offloading.
We need a kafka compatible solution with topic storage offloading.
Super easy to setup, great speed and great customer support.
What do you like best about the product?
We used Redpanda is the backbone of our event-driven architecture. It was incredibly easy to setup, and super easy to use. We used the basic Kafka APIs in Python/Java/Go and nothing had to change, we just pointed at the Redpanda brokers rather than the Kafka Brokers. The speed was very good and overall it was exactly what we needed. The UI is also pretty decent and let us see what was happening pretty quickly.
The customer support was top-notch as well, and they hopped on our requests as soon as we notified them.
The customer support was top-notch as well, and they hopped on our requests as soon as we notified them.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is more of a kafka beef than anything, but some of our message sizes were larger so we had to use Redpanda to notify our other components to fetch data from an S3 bucket (data-poor), rather than passing the data-rich messages. I tried to shove 80MB into a message and while it "worked" it took a very long time. That was on me though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redpanda helped us with our event handling and data processing pipelines.
Great low cost alternative for kafka compliant data streaming
What do you like best about the product?
There are quite a few highlights. Working with the Redpanda team has been a really smooth process, during the sales and onboarding times especially. The team has been quite responsive and the slack channel for questions and tickets has been easy to use. The trial gave us ample time to validate our use case and confirm our estimates for data use.
The other real benefit comes from the pricing. Redpanda has allowed my small team the flexibility with learning as we build out our platform without worrying about going through our entire budget in a week or two, whereas some other data streaming platforms require an ironclad understanding of how much data you're putting into the system.
The other real benefit comes from the pricing. Redpanda has allowed my small team the flexibility with learning as we build out our platform without worrying about going through our entire budget in a week or two, whereas some other data streaming platforms require an ironclad understanding of how much data you're putting into the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest downside so far revolves around the maturity of the product. Setting up a local environment still requires some deeper knowledge of data streaming and some other open source tools. Some of the documentation isn't complete, and features that are available in other platforms require a little bit of guesswork and experimentation to figure out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redpanda is solving streaming data and distribution, and it is benefitting us by allowing our application to scale horizontally.
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