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Disclosure: this post is from my colleague.

A: You have managed vendors that simplify Kafka, such as MSK, Confluent, and Redpanda. And other software like Pulsar.

But we believe the solution to the time sink exposed in the article lies one level of abstraction higher. In the case of data analytics, there are tools/companies such as Decodable/Streamkap/Airbyte that simplify your life as an engineer.

In the case of operational streaming, we (Ambar) are making a bet on the tried and tested outbox/inbox pattern as a replacement for producing directly into Kafka et al, and thus managing all of its quirks and complexities. That’s the alternative we offer, but of course there are other folks in this space.

Admittedly, we didn’t dive deep into alternatives in the post. But we did explain at the end that we’ll cover it in another post. I’ll add a link at the bottom later pointing to some alternatives. :)

Thanks for reading!