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Introducing Factor House Docs
Factor House Docs is now live: a unified hub for our product documentation, with a new task-based structure, interactive kJQ examples, and powerful search across Kpow, Flex, and Factor Platform.
Data Inspect Enhancements in Kpow 94.5
Kpow 94.5 enhances data inspection with comma-separated kJQ Projection expressions, in-browser search, and flexible deserialization. It also adds high-performance streaming and new kJQ transforms.
Our Java compatibility and evolution strategy
This post outlines our release process and future plans for Java support at Factor House, including how we approach deprecating older versions for diverse customer bases.
Integrate Kpow with OCI Streaming for Kafka
Integrate Kpow with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming with Apache Kafka in minutes and gain unified visibility and control over your OCI brokers and ecosystem components.
Unified community license for Kpow and Flex
The unified Factor House Community License works with Kpow and Flex Community Edition, unlocking both products with one license, making it simpler to explore, prototype, and evaluate our products.
Kpow Custom Serdes and Protobuf v4.31.1
This post explains an update in the version of protobuf libraries used by Kpow, and a possible compatibility impact this update may cause to user defined Custom Serdes.
A final goodbye to OperatrIO
2025 is a pivotal moment at Factor House, formerly Operatr.IO. We've announced our fundraise and have more to share about our roadmap this year, so it's time to retire the io.operatr artifacts.
Is your data stack ready for the EU Data Act?
The EU Data Act takes effect in September 2025, with major implications for teams running Kafka. This explores what it means for engineers, and how Kpow can help ensure compliance.
Deploy Kpow on EKS via AWS Marketplace using Helm
Deploy Kpow on Amazon EKS via the AWS Marketplace using Helm and eksctl to automate IRSA, enabling secure license validation via AWS License Manager and usage reporting for hourly subscriptions.