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Introducing Webhook Support in Kpow
This guide shows how to configure Kpow webhooks that send real-time audit log alerts from your Kafka environment into collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Factor House docs and inspect fixes
This release introduces Factor House Docs, a new unified documentation hub, along with major data inspection enhancements and more reliable URP detection and KRaft support improvements.
From batch to real-time CDC with Debezium
This project turns the static "theLook" eCommerce dataset into a live stream. A Python generator simulates activity in PostgreSQL while Debezium captures changes and streams them to Kafka.
Real-time leaderboards with Kafka and Flink
Learn how to build a real-time "Top-K" analytics pipeline using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Streamlit to ingest, process, and visualize live events on an interactive dashboard.
Integrate Kpow with Google Managed Schema Registry
Kpow 94.3 integrates with Google Cloud's managed Schema Registry using native OAuth. This guide covers configuring authentication and using Kpow to manage Avro schemas.
Auto SerDes improvements
This minor hotfix release from Factor House resolves a bug when using Auto SerDes without Data policies, and adds support for UTF-8 String Auto SerDes inference.
BYO AI and Data Inspect updates
This minor release introduces BYO AI model support, topic data inference, and Data Inspect enhancements including AI-powered kJQ filtering and AVRO date formatting improvements.
Integrate Kpow with Bufstream
Integrate Kpow with Bufstream in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your Kafka-compatible broker and Buf Schema Registry in the Kpow UI.
Integrate Kpow with Redpanda Streaming Platform
Integrate Kpow with Redpanda in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your Redpanda brokers and built-in Schema Registry in the Kpow UI.