Factor House

Looking forward to presenting at Current next week on building end-to-end data lineage across Kafka, Flink, and Spark with OpenLineage. 🗓 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 🕧 12:30 PM 📍 Victoria Room 6 I'll share some practical lessons from implementing lineage across different technologies, what worked, what didn't, and how the pieces fit together in practice. #Current26 #Kafka #Flink #Spark #OpenLineage #DataLineage

We're in London next week and excited to host a series of events for the data streaming community 🇬🇧 📅 Monday, May 18 - Data Streaming Happy Hour with NetApp Instaclustr & StreamNative at Bokan 38/39, Canary Wharf 📅 Tuesday & Wednesday, May 19-20 - Current London 2026 at ExCEL London (find us at Stand S5) 📅 Thursday, May 21 - Hands-on Workshop: Operating Kafka at Scale at 1 Mark Square, London. Registration links are in the comments. See you in London! p.s. Want a free pass to Current London? Drop a comment below.

Join us in London for a hands-on workshop for teams operating Kafka in production. Jaehyeon Kim (Factor House) and Andrew Mills (NetApp Instaclustr) will run five practical exercises covering poison pills, RBAC, Kafka Connect, audit logging, and Prometheus metrics. Bring your laptop. Reserve your spot in the event below.

If you're in London the week of Current, come have a drink with us the night before the conference kicks off 🌆 We're hosting a rooftop happy hour at Bokan 39 in Canary Wharf with NetApp Instaclustr and StreamNative. No agenda, just good conversation with people from across the Kafka and Flink ecosystem. Food and drinks are on us. RSVP on the event page.

A live tech talk on Kafka war stories, Kafka audit trails routed wherever your team works, Grafana dashboard templates, and a deep dive into KIP-932. Plus: four events around Current London and streaming jobs worldwide.

Join Chad Harris on April 29 at 2pm PT for a live session on real-world Kafka operational failures. Chad has spent years operating Kafka across some of the world's highest-volume transactional systems ☕🔥

Heading to Current London in May? We're hosting a rooftop happy hour at Bokan 39 in Canary Wharf on Monday 18th May, the evening before the conference kicks off, alongside our friends at NetApp Instaclustr and StreamNative. No talks. No agenda. Just drinks, food, and good conversation with people from across the Kafka and Flink ecosystem. A relaxed way to put faces to names before the conference week gets going. Food and drinks are on us. Space is limited, so grab a spot early. Link to register in the comments. See you on the rooftop 🌇

Welcome to the streaming party, StreamNative 🎊 I always liked the idea of Pulsar and the Ursa engine, it's great technology. But there was just one problem with it for me: it wasn't Kafka. The Kafka ecosystem is extensive, well-supported, and well-adopted. For this reason, competing with Kafka is a Sisyphean task, and one that changes your risk profile. StreamNative's latest addition, a fork of Apache Kafka powered by the Ursa Engine, changes the math on this dramatically: ✅ Modern architecture ✅ 'Diskless' topics ✅ Zero-copy Iceberg tables And, because it implements the Kafka protocol, it 'just works' with my favourite tool, Kpow. We took it for a spin, and you can too. @Jaehyeon Kim recently updated our integration guide to help get you started with Kpow + StreamNative. Link in the comments.