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Beyond Kafka: signals from Current London 2025
At Current London 2025, the shift from Kafka Summit signaled a move toward streaming-first AI, system-level control, and production-ready Flink. Here's what Factor House saw and learned.
Amazon Corretto 11 Memory Issues
A move to v2 cgroups by several Linux distributions, including Amazon Linux 2022 and RHEL 9, highlights a JVM issue in Amazon Corretto 11 that can cause a container to exit with OOMKilled errors.
Introducing Factor House 2.0 🚀
Today we introduce Flex for Apache Flink, and announce the Factor Platform, the future of distributed systems engineering.
Factor House Product VPAT
We first published a VPAT in the release notes of Kpow for Apache Kafka v92.4, with one available in every Kpow release since. We are extending that commitment to all future Factor House releases.
From Bootstrap to Blackbird: The Future of Factor House
Factor House has closed a $5M seed round led by Blackbird Ventures to accelerate the commercial release of the Factor Platform, ending a five-year bootstrapped journey.
Introducing Kpow's new API
Kpow's new API lets you manage topics, consumer groups, and monitor Kafka clusters directly from your own tools, mirroring the functionality of the Kpow user interface.
Factor House launches open community Slack
Factor House has opened a public Slack for anyone working with streaming data, offering faster peer-to-peer support, open discussion, and a friendly on-ramp for newcomers.
Kafka 4.1 Release: Queues, Stream Groups, and More
Apache Kafka 4.1 has landed with queue support in preview, improved Kafka Streams coordination, and new security and metrics features for real-time data systems.
Kafka 3.2.0: idempotent producer breaking change
Apache Kafka KIP-679 changes the default Producer configuration to enable idempotence by default. This can cause message production to fail after updating to the 3.2.0 kafka-client libraries.