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.
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!
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.
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.
Introducing full support for schema references in Confluent Schema Registry.
With this new release you can now create and edit AVRO, JSONSchema, and Protobuf schema with references, as well as consume and produce messages with those schema.
Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail.
Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.
Kpow now offers a secure, vendor-agnostic OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for managing Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry resources.
Read on to learn how to integrate Kpow with your product or GitOps pipeline using Kpow's new REST API modules.
Our mission at Factor House is to empower every engineer in the streaming tech space with superb tooling.
We are pleased to report that Kpow for Apache Kafka is now compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines and has an independently audited Voluntary Product Accessiblity Template (VPAT) report.
Release v92.3 introduces extensive UI accessibility improvements to Kpow and Flex along with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Release v92.2 introduces new UI for Kafka Quotas, Transactional Producers, and KRaft clusters along with new features for topic and consumer management and improvements to Flink checkpointing and watermarking in Flex.
Today we introduce Flex for Apache Flink and announce Factor Platform, the future of distributed systems engineering.
Starting now, individuals can use Flex CE for free, even at work. Organisations can install Flex CE in up to three non-production environments.
Kpow v92.1 closes a large number of support tickets, introduces new features like multi-topic create and time-since URP, and improves the efficieny of Kafka Connect and Schema Registry observation.
Kpow v88.2 introduces improved support for monitoring Flink consumers, the ability to encrypt your Kpow configuration to avoid passwords in plaintext, new configuration options for connecting to Confluent Schema Registries that require mutual TLS for authentication, and more.
