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IBM to acquire Confluent

(www.confluent.io)
443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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dangoldin ◴[08 Dec 25 16:40 UTC] No.46194417[source]▶
I led the engineering team of a large adtech company (TripleLift - order of hundreds of billions of events/day) and we evolved from self hosting Kafka, to paying a vendor (Instacluster), to migrating to RedPanda.

RedPanda was a huge win for us. Confluent never made sense to us since we were always so cost conscious but the complexity/risk of managing a critical part of our infra was always something I worried about. RedPanda was able to handle both for us - cheaper than Kafka hosting vendors with significantly better performance. We were pretty early customers but was a huge win for us.

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1. dangoodmanUT ◴[08 Dec 25 18:28 UTC] No.46195834[source]▶
This. Using RP was like a breath of fresh air compared to the dread of Kafka (both local dev, and running a prod cluster)