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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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b33f ◴[08 Dec 25 14:50 UTC] No.46192837[source]▶
Maybe a good time to consider alternatives https://www.redpanda.com/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka
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1. tapoxi ◴[08 Dec 25 15:37 UTC] No.46193478[source]▶
We switched to Redpanda's BYOC product because we couldn't use Confluent Cloud (contractual reasons) and BYOC was a third the price of Confluent for Kubernetes while also being a managed service.

I've been pretty happy with RP performance/cost/functionality wise. It isn't Kafka though, it's a proprietary C++ rewrite that aims for 100% compatibility. This hasn't been an issue in the 2+ years since we migrated prod, but YMMV.