Apache Kafka

What do you like best?

We used Apache Kafka as a data streaming tool which has helped us to develop loosely coupled architecture and allowed us to make asynchronized communication between multiple services. Moreover, its partitioning feature has incredibly increased the efficiency of our application. We integrated Kafka with Avro to serialize and deserialize our data and validate it as well. It was quite easy to integrate with 3rd party tool. Kafka has great documentation large user group so we easily get community support. Eventually, I can say that Apache Kafka is an easy to configure, versatile, speedy and low latency tool.

What do you dislike?

It is a highly configurable and feature-rich tool hence, I could not find anything to dislike in Apache Kafka.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Apache Kafka is not only the messaging broker but it provides a myriad of features, before choosing any other Messaging Broker please have a look at the features provided by Apache Kafka.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We had to develop loosely coupled services so, downtime of one service should not affect the others. Furthermore, we needed to interact seamlessly with any service and also considered speed and performance. Also, we had to openly available Kafka Server so, authentication/authorization was also required, but we really thankful to Kafka documentation which made our story very easy.