The latest news, releases, and articles from Factor House
This minor release from Factor House introduces support for GCP MSK and new feature improvements such as data inspect display options, AVRO Date Logical Type formatting, flat CSV export, and fixes a bug in consumer offset reset!
Kpow version 94.2 enhances consumer group management capabilities, providing greater control and visibility into Kafka consumption. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to manage consumer offsets in Kpow.
A practical, step-by-step guide on setting up a Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster and connecting it from Kpow using the OAUTHBEARER mechanism.
A comprehensive, step by step guide to provisioning Amazon MSK infrastructure, configuring authentication with the OAUTHBEARER mechanism using AWS IAM, setting up a client EC2 instance within the same VPC, and deploying Kpow.
A step-by-step guide to configuring Kpow with Confluent Cloud resources including Kafka clusters, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB.
This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!
Discover how our 94.1 release has streamlined DockerHub, Helm Charts, and AWS Marketplace deployments!
2025 is a pivotal moment at Factor House (formally Operatr.IO). We've announced our fundraise and have much more to announce about our roadmap this year. This is why we think that now is the perfect time to do a bit of spring cleaning and retire the io.operatr artifacts for good.
At Factor House, delivering reliable software is at the heart of everything we do. A key aspect of this commitment lies in our approach to managing Java compatibility. This blog post outlines our current release process and future plans for evolving Java support, including our approach to deprecating older versions in a way that respects the needs of diverse customer bases.
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.