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With our funding announcement and the upcoming launch of the Factor Platform, we know some of our existing customers might be wondering: What does this mean for Kpow and Flex? Will we be forced to upgrade? Will prices spike?

Keep one thing in mind - at Factor House we're here for engineers.

We are thrilled to announce that Factor House has closed a $5M seed round to accelerate the commercial release of our new product, the Factor Platform.

Led by Blackbird Ventures, with OIF Ventures, Flying Fox Ventures, and LaunchVic’s Alice Anderson Fund as partners, this round brings our five-year bootstrapping journey to a happy conclusion and points to a bright future ahead!

We first published a VPAT in the release notes of Kpow for Apache Kafka v92.4, with a VPAT available to download in every release of Kpow since.

Today, we are pleased to announce that we are extending that commitment to all future Factor House product releases - including Flex for Apache Flink and the Factor Platform.

How do skateboards and green suns drive web accessibility at Factor House?

Learn why building accessible products is important to us, and how we've changed to ensure that accessibility is embedded in our development process.

With our new API, you can now leverage Kpow's capabilities directly from your own tools and platforms, opening up a whole new range of possibilities for integrating Kpow into your existing workflows. Whether you're managing topics, consumer groups, or monitoring Kafka clusters, our API provides a seamless experience that mirrors the functionality of our user interface.

Today we introduce Flex for Apache Flink and announce Factor Platform, the future of distributed systems engineering.

Starting now, individuals can use Flex CE for free, even at work. Organisations can install Flex CE in up to three non-production environments.

Kpow Community Edition is a free, developer focused toolkit for Apache Kafka clusters, schema registries, and connect installations.

Starting today, individuals can use Kpow CE for free, even at work. Organisations can install Kpow CE in up to three non-production environments.

Each installation of Kpow CE can manage one Kafka Cluster, one Schema Registry, and one Connect cluster. See our feature matrix for more information.

This news has been many months in the making. Today Derek, Tom, and I are proud to share our new look and name with the world. Factor House has arrived.

Apache Kafka KIP-679 changes the behaviour of default Producer configuration to enable idempotence by default. This change can cause message production to fail after updating to the 3.2.0 kafka-client libraries.

A recent move to v2 cgroups by a number of Linux distributions (including Amazon Linux 2022 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) highlights an issue in Amazon Corretto 11 where the JVM process can cause a Docker container to exit with OOMKilled errors.