The latest news, releases, and articles from Factor House
This post details integrating Kpow with Confluent Cloud resources, demonstrating its real-world power. We walk through deploying Kpow locally via Docker Compose, configuring its service and the crucial environment file with connection, authentication, and licensing details for Confluent Cloud. Finally, explore Kpow's UI to monitor and interact with your Kafka cluster.
This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!
Discover how our 94.1 release has streamlined DockerHub, Helm Charts, and AWS Marketplace deployments!
2025 is a pivotal moment at Factor House (formally Operatr.IO). We've announced our fundraise and have much more to announce about our roadmap this year. This is why we think that now is the perfect time to do a bit of spring cleaning and retire the io.operatr artifacts for good.
At Factor House, delivering reliable software is at the heart of everything we do. A key aspect of this commitment lies in our approach to managing Java compatibility. This blog post outlines our current release process and future plans for evolving Java support, including our approach to deprecating older versions in a way that respects the needs of diverse customer bases.
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.
Querying Kafka topics is a critical task for engineers working on data streaming applications, but it can often be a complex and time-consuming process.
Enter Kpow's data inspect feature—designed to simplify and optimize Kafka topic queries, making it an essential tool for professionals working with Apache Kafka.