Bento gets a makeover (opens in new tab)

Personally, I was eyeing redpanda connect for some use cases and the telemetry was a huge turnoff, even if it’s disabled. This is in addition to the licensing schemes. So my focus has been on Bento instead.

> the open source fork made by Synadia, makers of NATS

Well there's an anti-endorsement if I've seen one

Pretty good community, Slack has 600+ users.

Personally, I'm happy to see them evolving it with my juices left intact. When we transitioned benthos.dev to https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect we gained a much larger (and more competent) docs team, but as a consequence had to trim a lot of the old personality. I don't regret the transition but I do take a bit of comfort seeing the WarpStream peeps continue to have fun with it.

It's like shedding an almost intact full body skin and finding comfort in watching colleagues take it bowling, having a great time.

Lol I was actually looking at the Wiki earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)