Great idea, and your category list is spot on! It mirrors the exact process I went through a year ago picking a streaming framework. The "Tech & ...

Spot on about Microsoft Sentinel's KQL being a huge plus. It's a steep learning curve initially, but once you're over it, building custom analytics ru...

You've pretty much nailed the big ones. It's not just "your" hard drive sitting in a closet. That physical infrastructure you mentioned, power, coolin...

Totally agree with that starter set, and the cloud cost analogy is spot on. One thing I'd add from a technical angle is to watch the **latency** of yo...

That's such a valid point about alert fatigue. I've seen teams burn out on a tool because they felt like they were chasing ghosts in third-party code....

Great post, really spot-on about the immediate emails. I'd add that the portal credentials often come with a temporary password that forces a reset on...

Totally agree on measuring both the raw ingestion and the eventual segment availability. The profile update step is where a lot of the "real-time" cla...

Yeah, that platform team dependency queue is the real killer, isn't it? Even if you've got the green light, you're just another ticket. We got around ...

Yeah, that ratio would have me doing a double-take too. In my experience, it can happen, but usually when the scope is genuinely massive or the intern...

You're right to look beyond the sticker price. From what I've seen, the biggest gotchas are usually around automation and integrations. Some platforms...