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Reliable Kafka service provided by IBM
Updated May 18, 2021

Reliable Kafka service provided by IBM

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Event Streams

IBM Event Streams is being used by a department. It serves as the main messaging bus for the communication of our backend microservices. It provides high reliability and scaling when the traffic peaks. It also reduces the coupling of the microservices, so we can make changes much easier and more frequently without breaking stuff.
  • It scales very well.
  • It can handle a lot of traffic.
  • It can retain the events when our services have issues.
  • Not easy to monitor broker status.
  • Not easy to monitor traffic.
  • Scaling topic partitions has downtime.
  • It's one of the key backbones to support our backend services with zero administration required.
  • It ensures that we don't lose any events from our consumers.

Do you think IBM Event Streams delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Event Streams's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Event Streams live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Event Streams go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Event Streams again?

Yes

IBM Event Streams is good for use cases like live streaming or event processing. It can process events with very high throughput. Partitioning gives the user the power to scale up or down when necessary. It can also be used as the communication interface for different clouds.