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IBM to acquire Confluent

(www.confluent.io)
443 points abd12 | 2 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. scirob ◴[09 Dec 25 12:49 UTC] No.46204387[source]▶
Last i talked to RedPanda sales while working at a big name client they would not offer us anything below $100k per year for enterprise support etc (us running on our kubernetes). Looks like they added some "serverless" pricing thing now, but at the time Azure Eventhub (kakfa client compatible) was cheapest enterprisy option if I remember correctly.
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2. agallego ◴[09 Dec 25 16:00 UTC] No.46206423[source]▶
Hmm. Strange. DM me details. Haven’t heard of anything like that.