I agree that marketing could be improved and I support finding a slogan that represents best what Flume is today. I am not sure about the wording that has been proposed, though. Can you please elaborate, Ralph?
Thank you, Donat On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 6:19 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > When I read sites like https://www.slant.co/versus/959/960/~fluentd_vs_flume > <https://www.slant.co/versus/959/960/~fluentd_vs_flume> I get a bit > discouraged at how people misunderstand Flume. Even a site like > https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/data-ingestion-tools/ > <https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/data-ingestion-tools/> is > misleading by copying our home page by just saying "Flume is a distributed, > reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and > moving large amounts of log data” and then copying the image. This leads > users to believe that Flume is only useful in a small set of use cases and is > intimately tied to Hadoop. > > I believe the home page should be changed to indicate say that "Flume is a > distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, > aggregating, and streaming large amounts of data”, and then following up to > indicate that it is appropriate to use to move any kind of streaming data > such as application, audit, or system logs, real time events such as stock > quotes, or user transaction records. > > The second sentence should also be modified to say "It is robust and fault > tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms that can insure guaranteed > delivery and many failover and recovery mechanisms”. > > I also think the very first image should be modified to not show just a web > application and HDFS as it seems to give people the impression that Flume is > only usable with Hadoop or in web applications. Unfortunately, only the png > seems to have been committed so redoing the diagram will mean starting from > scratch. > > Thoughts? > > Ralph
