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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025
Release 94.1: Streams Agent, Consumer Offset Management, and Helm Charts

This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!

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February 27, 2025
Releasing Software at Factor House: Our Java Compatibility and Evolution Strategy

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.

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025
Updates to container specifics (DockerHub and Helm Charts)

Discover how our 94.1 release has streamlined DockerHub, Helm Charts, and AWS Marketplace deployments!

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025
A final goodbye to OperatrIO

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.

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February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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February 13, 2025
Our Commitment to Engineers

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.

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February 13, 2025

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February 13, 2025

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February 13, 2025
From Bootstrap to Blackbird: The Future of Factor House

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!

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February 13, 2025

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February 13, 2025

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