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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July 15, 2025
Improvements to Data Inspect in Kpow 94.3
Kpow's 94.3 release is here, transforming how you work with Kafka. Instantly query topics using plain English with our new AI-powered filtering, automatically decode any message format without manual setup, and leverage powerful new enhancements to our kJQ language. This update makes inspecting Kafka data more intuitive and powerful than ever before.
Release
July 14, 2025
Release 94.4: Auto SerDes improvements
This minor hotfix release from Factor House resolves a bug when using Auto SerDes without Data policies, and adds support for UTF-8 String Auto SerDes inference.
Release
July 10, 2025
Release 94.3: BYO AI, Topic data inference, and Data inspect improvements
This minor release from Factor House introduces BYO AI model support, topic data inference, and major enhancements to data inspect—such as AI-powered filtering, new UI elements, and AVRO date formatting. It also adds integration with GCP Managed Kafka Schema Registry, improved webhook support, updated policy handling, and several UI and error-handling improvements.
Article
June 24, 2025
Ensuring Your Data Streaming Stack Is Ready for the EU Data Act
The EU Data Act takes effect in September 2025, introducing major implications for teams running Kafka. This article explores what the Act means for data streaming engineers, and how Kpow can help ensure compliance — from user data access to audit logging and secure interoperability.
Article
June 24, 2025
Beyond Kafka: Sharp Signals from Current London 2025
The real-time ecosystem has outgrown Kafka alone. At Current London 2025, the transition from Kafka Summit was more than a name change — it marked a shift toward streaming-first AI, system-level control, and production-ready Flink. Here's what Factor House saw and learned on the ground.
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June 23, 2025
Integrate Kpow with Bufstream
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