The latest news, releases, and articles from Factor House
The real-time ecosystem has outgrown Kafka alone. At Current London 2025, the transition from Kafka Summit was more than a name change — it marked a shift toward streaming-first AI, system-level control, and production-ready Flink. Here's what Factor House saw and learned on the ground.
The EU Data Act takes effect in September 2025, introducing major implications for teams running Kafka. This article explores what the Act means for data streaming engineers, and how Kpow can help ensure compliance — from user data access to audit logging and secure interoperability.
Learn how to integrate Bufstream—a Kafka-compatible streaming platform—with Kpow to enable streamlined, schema-aware development for Kafka-compatible streaming platforms.
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to integrating Kpow with the Redpanda platform, covering the complete configuration needed to monitor the Kafka-compatible broker and manage schemas through its built-in schema registry.
This guide demonstrates how to address the operational complexity of managing multiple Kafka schema registries. We integrate Confluent-compatible registries—Confluent Schema Registry, Apicurio Registry, and Karapace—and manage them all through a single pane of glass using Kpow.
Introducing two new open sources Clojure UI libraries by Factor House.
HSX and RFX are drop-replacements for Reagent and Re-Frame, allowing us to migrate to React 19 while maintaining a familiar developer experience with Hiccup and similar data-driven event model.
This minor release from Factor House introduces support for GCP MSK and new feature improvements such as data inspect display options, AVRO Date Logical Type formatting, flat CSV export, and fixes a bug in consumer offset reset!
Kpow version 94.2 enhances consumer group management capabilities, providing greater control and visibility into Kafka consumption. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to manage consumer offsets in Kpow.
A practical, step-by-step guide on setting up a Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster and connecting it from Kpow using the OAUTHBEARER mechanism.
A comprehensive, step by step guide to provisioning Amazon MSK infrastructure, configuring authentication with the OAUTHBEARER mechanism using AWS IAM, setting up a client EC2 instance within the same VPC, and deploying Kpow.