Hey Denis, I haven’t run into you before. But hi, this is Luis, Ambar’s founder. Nice to meet a fellow data streamer.
When I started writing Ambar I thought streaming from a database was a solved problem. But in operational use cases where ordering and delivery guarantees are assumptions developers need, it isn’t a solved problem. The first version of Ambar was just Debezium under the hood, but guess what, it failed and failed hard. Like you described Kafka. Hence we built Ambar :)
FYI we’ve considered using Redpanda under the hood instead of Kafka, but didn’t dare make the jump yet.
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Hey Denis, I haven’t run into you before. But hi, this is Luis, Ambar’s founder. Nice to meet a fellow data streamer.
When I started writing Ambar I thought streaming from a database was a solved problem. But in operational use cases where ordering and delivery guarantees are assumptions developers need, it isn’t a solved problem. The first version of Ambar was just Debezium under the hood, but guess what, it failed and failed hard. Like you described Kafka. Hence we built Ambar :)
FYI we’ve considered using Redpanda under the hood instead of Kafka, but didn’t dare make the jump yet.
Ah okay, so is Ambar more of a way to finally replace Debezium then?
Yes, for operational use cases. Eg event driven microservices communication. Keeping in mind we replace the sink as well, which allows us to do cool things such as https://ambar.cloud/blog/optimal-consumption-with-adaptive-l...
For analytics (eg copy your PG database to Snowflake), Debezium is still relevant.