KIP-932 Queues for Kafka: Bridging the Gap Between Streaming and Messaging
Discover how Kafka's KIP-932 Share Groups bring native queue semantics to your event streaming architecture, and the new complexities engineers must manage.
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How-to
December 8, 2025
How to Integrate Kpow with OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka
Integrate Kpow with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming with Apache Kafka in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your OCI brokers and ecosystem components through our market-leading engineering toolkit.
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.
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.
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How-to
October 22, 2025
Deploy Kpow on EKS via AWS Marketplace using Helm
Streamline your Kpow deployment on Amazon EKS with our guide, fully integrated with the AWS Marketplace. We use eksctl to automate IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), providing a secure integration for Kpow's licensing and metering. This allows your instance to handle license validation via AWS License Manager and report usage for hourly subscriptions, enabling a production-ready deployment with minimal configuration.
Release
October 22, 2025
Release 94.6: Factor Platform, Ververica Integration, and kJQ Enhancements
The first Factor Platform release candidate is here, a major milestone toward a unified control plane for real-time data streaming technologies. This release also introduces Ververica Platform integration in Flex, plus support for Kafka Clients 4.1 / Confluent 8.0.0 and new kJQ operators for richer stream inspection.
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Article
October 12, 2025
Kpow Custom Serdes and Protobuf v4.31.1
This post explains an update in the version of protobuf libraries used by Kpow, and a possible compatibility impact this update may cause to user defined Custom Serdes.
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