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.

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.

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

Move beyond raw JMX noise and unlock business-relevant observability for your Kafka environment. This guide explores how to feed high-fidelity, pre-calculated metrics, such as consumer group lag in seconds, directly from Kpow into your Grafana dashboards for proactive capacity planning and incident response.

IBM has completed its acquisition of Confluent. We examine what the deal means for teams running Kafka in production, where the real lock-in risks sit, and how to assess your exposure.

Factor House has officially landed in Europe. Read about our latest strategic hires and how we are empowering the next era of streaming data for enterprise engineering teams.