Not a Kafkaesque UI

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.

The easy-to-use interface has been a positive boon for the software engineers and cloud administrators, as well as dev ops engineers on my team and that my team interacts with. It made ramp up quicker than it would have been otherwise with a more confusing UI. This is especially important in this proof of concept phase in which we currently find ourselves at the moment. Cross-region disaster recovery will be an important part of our disaster recovery strategy as we evaluate the product for usage on a larger scale with a larger number of dependencies.

API-driven development is an important part of our architectural plan and is largely standard for cloud-based resource management at scale. Part of our security strategy going forward into the future phases of the maturity of our usage of this product involves encryption and we will flesh out a solution for managing encryption keys that aligns with our security policies as an organization.