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Article
February 6, 2026

Case Study
How NORD/LB transformed Kafka operations and cut debugging time in half

A German financial institution overcomes critical compliance gaps and operational inefficiencies to build a scalable, enterprise-grade streaming data platform.

How-to
February 6, 2026

Release
February 6, 2026

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
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.

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.

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How-to
December 3, 2025

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December 3, 2025

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