Use Cases

BBRmap is designed for decisions where teams have multiple technically viable ways to provide the same software capability. Those alternatives may differ in who operates the software, the vendor or service used, or the technical configuration. The current Demo applies the approach to event streaming; the other examples below illustrate the kinds of technology decisions the same economic framework could support.

CapabilityStatusAlternatives
Event StreamingDemo
  • Self-managed Apache Kafka on AWS EC2 + EBS gp3
  • Amazon MSK Provisioned
  • Confluent Cloud Enterprise

The current Demo compares these three implementations across two saved workload scenarios.

Read the Kafka TCO analysis

Observability / MonitoringIllustrative
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • A self-managed Prometheus and Grafana stack
Data Warehouse / AnalyticsIllustrative
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks SQL
  • Amazon Redshift or Azure Synapse
  • Self-managed ClickHouse or Postgres
CI/CD InfrastructureIllustrative
  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCI
  • AWS CodeBuild or Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins or self-hosted runners
Relational DatabaseIllustrative
  • Amazon RDS or Azure SQL
  • Neon
  • PlanetScale
  • Postgres or MySQL on AWS EC2

Alternatives

  • Self-managed Apache Kafka on AWS EC2 + EBS gp3
  • Amazon MSK Provisioned
  • Confluent Cloud Enterprise

The current Demo compares these three implementations across two saved workload scenarios.

Read the Kafka TCO analysis

Observability / Monitoring

Illustrative

Alternatives

  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • A self-managed Prometheus and Grafana stack

Data Warehouse / Analytics

Illustrative

Alternatives

  • Snowflake
  • Databricks SQL
  • Amazon Redshift or Azure Synapse
  • Self-managed ClickHouse or Postgres

CI/CD Infrastructure

Illustrative

Alternatives

  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCI
  • AWS CodeBuild or Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins or self-hosted runners

Relational Database

Illustrative

Alternatives

  • Amazon RDS or Azure SQL
  • Neon
  • PlanetScale
  • Postgres or MySQL on AWS EC2