Item: IBM Event Automation
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Event Streams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Event Streams allows my cloud-focused team within my hosting-focused web development company to move an Apache Kafka-based pub/sub pattern from one of our pre-existing applications into the IBM cloud. It is being used within a single application at this time as a proof of concept and that application is consumed mostly by our team. The business problem that it addresses is hosting for our pub sub-app in the IBM Cloud. We had business reasons for using the IBM cloud in this case.

Pros and Cons

Pros

UI is intuitive and easy to use.
Apache Kafka has a great community.
Being in the cloud is great.

Cons

Monitoring capabilities are lacking for me; for example, I would like to have more visibility into queue depth.

Return on Investment

It is in [the] early stages at our company - still a proof of concept - so the business implications haven't taken effect yet.

Key Insights

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Event Automation go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Event Automation again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are running an application that requires pub/sub capabilities like Apache Kafka and you want to run the pub /sub in the IBM cloud, then I think that this may be an appropriate technology choice for you. As there are comparable products in other cloud providers, it is worthwhile to consider the business externalities of your choice of cloud providers and choose the one that makes the most sense from that perspective.

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Not a Kafkaesque UI