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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Article
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.
Article
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!
Article
September 5, 2024
Factor House Product VPAT
We first published a VPAT in the release notes of Kpow for Apache Kafka v92.4, with a VPAT available to download in every release of Kpow since. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are extending that commitment to all future Factor House product releases - including Flex for Apache Flink and the Factor Platform.
Article
September 4, 2024
Web Accessibility at Factor House
How do skateboards and green suns drive web accessibility at Factor House? Learn why building accessible products is important to us, and how we've changed to ensure that accessibility is embedded in our development process.
How-to
August 22, 2024
How to query a Kafka topic
Querying Kafka topics is a critical task for engineers working on data streaming applications, but it can often be a complex and time-consuming process. Enter Kpow's data inspect feature—designed to simplify and optimize Kafka topic queries, making it an essential tool for professionals working with Apache Kafka.
Release
August 20, 2024
Release 93.4: Protobuf, Light Mode, and Community
This minor version release from Factor House improves protobuf rendering, sharpens light-mode, simplifies community edition setup, resolves a number of small bugs, and bumps Kafka client dependencies to v3.7.0.
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