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April 17, 2026
KIP-1150 Diskless Topics: Rethinking Storage and Cloud Costs in Kafka

Discover how Kafka's KIP-1150 Diskless Topics aim to bring cloud-native scalability and cost-efficiency by natively utilizing object storage, and what it means for your streaming architecture.

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April 17, 2026

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April 17, 2026

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April 14, 2026
Operational Transparency: Real-Time Audit Trail Integrated with Webhooks

Operating Kafka without a transparent audit trail creates a critical "Governance Gap", leaving teams blind to administrative changes and vulnerable during incidents. This guide demonstrates how to replace opaque log parsing and restrictive bureaucracy with automated governance by streaming Kpow's real-time audit log via webhooks directly into communication tools like Slack.

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April 14, 2026

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April 14, 2026

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April 10, 2026

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April 10, 2026

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April 10, 2026
Release 95.5: UI performance improvements

95.5 is a minor bugfix release focusing on UI performance and resolving some regressions introduced by Kpow 95.4.

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April 9, 2026
KIP-932 Queues for Kafka: Bridging the Gap Between Streaming and Messaging

Discover how Kafka's KIP-932 Share Groups bring native queue semantics to your event streaming architecture, and the new complexities engineers must manage.

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April 9, 2026

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April 9, 2026

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April 2, 2026

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April 2, 2026

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April 2, 2026
Release 95.4: Concurrent data inspect, Strimzi support, and consumer group improvements

Kpow 95.4 introduces concurrent data inspect queries, Strimzi support, and improved consumer group management and monitoring.

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March 31, 2026

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March 31, 2026
Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud

Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your managed Kafka brokers and Schema Registry through our market-leading engineering console.

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March 31, 2026

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