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Article
February 2, 2026
Kafka Observability with Kpow: Driving Operational Excellence

Apache Kafka is the central nervous system of the modern enterprise, yet operating it at scale often leads to reactive maintenance cycles. Identifying three critical gaps in context, data quality, and governance, this article introduces a comprehensive strategy to transform reactive troubleshooting into proactive operational excellence with Kpow.

Case Study

How-to
February 2, 2026

Release
February 2, 2026

Article
January 19, 2026

Case Study

How-to
January 19, 2026

Release
January 19, 2026
Release 95.3: Memory leak fix for in-memory compute users

95.3 fixes a memory leak in our in-memory compute implementation, reported by our customers.

Article
January 12, 2026

Case Study

How-to
January 12, 2026

Release
January 12, 2026
Release 95.2: quality-of-life improvements across Kpow, Flex & Helm deployments

95.2 focuses on refinement and operability, with improvements across the UI, consumer group workflows, and deployment configuration. Alongside bug fixes and usability improvements, this release adds new Helm options for configuring the API and controlling service account credential automounting.

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Article
February 2, 2026
Kafka Observability with Kpow: Driving Operational Excellence

Apache Kafka is the central nervous system of the modern enterprise, yet operating it at scale often leads to reactive maintenance cycles. Identifying three critical gaps in context, data quality, and governance, this article introduces a comprehensive strategy to transform reactive troubleshooting into proactive operational excellence with Kpow.

Case Study

How-to
February 2, 2026

Release
February 2, 2026

Article
January 19, 2026

Case Study

How-to
January 19, 2026

Release
January 19, 2026
Release 95.3: Memory leak fix for in-memory compute users

95.3 fixes a memory leak in our in-memory compute implementation, reported by our customers.

Article
January 12, 2026

Case Study

How-to
January 12, 2026

Release
January 12, 2026
Release 95.2: quality-of-life improvements across Kpow, Flex & Helm deployments

95.2 focuses on refinement and operability, with improvements across the UI, consumer group workflows, and deployment configuration. Alongside bug fixes and usability improvements, this release adds new Helm options for configuring the API and controlling service account credential automounting.

Article
December 8, 2025

Case Study

How-to
December 8, 2025
Integrate Kpow with Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI) Streaming with Apache Kafka

Unlock the full potential of your dedicated OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka cluster. This guide shows you how to integrate Kpow with your OCI brokers and self-hosted Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, unifying them into a single, developer-ready toolkit for complete visibility and control over your entire Kafka ecosystem.

Release
December 8, 2025

Article
December 3, 2025
Unified community license for Kpow and Flex

The unified Factor House Community License works with both Kpow Community Edition and Flex Community Edition, meaning one license will unlock both products. This makes it even simpler to explore modern data streaming tools, create proof-of-concepts, and evaluate our products.

Case Study

How-to
December 3, 2025

Release
December 3, 2025

Article
December 2, 2025

Case Study

How-to
December 2, 2025

Release
December 2, 2025
Release 95.1: A unified experience across product, web, docs and licensing

95.1 delivers a cohesive experience across Factor House products, licensing, and brand. This release introduces our new license portal, refreshed company-wide branding, a unified Community License for Kpow and Flex, and a series of performance, accessibility, and schema-related improvements.

Events & Webinars

Stay plugged in with the Factor House team and our community.

Event
18 February 2026
Sydney Workshop: Building Resilient Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Flink

We're teaming up with NetApp Instaclustr and Ververica to run this intensive half-day workshop where you'll design, build, and operate a complete real-time operational system from the ground up.

Event
12 February 2026
Apache Kafka Meetup

We're co-hosting the Kafka and Flink community with Confluent in Melbourne.

Join the Factor Community

We’re building more than products, we’re building a community. Whether you're getting started or pushing the limits of what's possible with Kafka and Flink, we invite you to connect, share, and learn with others.