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Factor House
Company blog · factorhouse.io/blogprogrammingdata
Factor House is the company blog at factorhouse.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Appears only in a 'Who is hiring' job listing for a software engineer role at Factor House, which builds tooling for distributed systems engineers. No comment discusses the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Manage Kafka and Flink clusters, search across topics in seconds, monitor consumer lag by partition, and enforce governance across every environment.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-02
What Hacker News says?
We have been using Apache ECharts in our products[1] since 2020. Cannot recommend it enough - absolutely fantastic library, great documentation, zero issues of any impact to us in five years. My only wish is for the keyboard accessibility ticket[2] to get some love! [1] https://factorhouse.io [2] https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/14706
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on “Apache ECharts”Submitted Beyond Reagent: Migrating to React 19 with HSX and RFX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy co-founder uses the phrase minimal-viable-company for maximum-viable-product. We bootstrapped for 5 years to well over $1M+ ARR before recently closing a seed round[1], Clojure played a large part in our ability to deliver as a small team. Also in our general happiness as programmers, it is a nice language to work in. We will grow our Clojure core product team over the next couple of years, but mostly the funding…
Comment linking /blog/articles/from-bootstrap-to-blackbird/
on “Why Clojure?”Submitted What the IBM-Confluent deal means for Kafka users as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCongratulations on building something great! It is immensely satisfying to build something that you believe in and succeed in selling it. I founded my company in 2019 and my experiencing and motivations in bootstrapping mirror yours. We are in year 4 (commercials) and 6 (product development) at Factor House[1]. We build enterprise tooling for streaming systems (Apache Kafka and Apache Flink mostly). Selling software…
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on “100% User-Supported”Factor House | https://factorhouse.io | Software Engineer | Full Time | Melbourne, Australia | No visa sponsorship | Small team Factor House builds tooling for distributed systems engineers. We are an independent, tech-focused company with customers all around the world, our flagship product is Kpow for Apache Kafka ( https://kpow.io ). We are looking for a product-focused software engineer to join our team in Melbo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)”https://factorhouse.io/kpow/ An enterprise toolkit for Apache Kafka (and now another for Flink). I spent years working in large enterprise orgs, a few more working with distributed systems. Along the way I picked up Clojure and by the power of greyskull managed to combine all those factors into a company. Now I work with a small team shipping tools for programmers. Good times. Today we have users in 100+ countries,…
Comment linking /kpow/
on “Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?”I'm a co-founder of a company called Factor House[1]. We build a devtool called Kpow for Apache Kafka[2] and I guess you could say we rely on PLG. I can't say I had heard of the term when we started back in 2018. We are bootstrapped and have always preferred to describe ourselves as a business rather than a startup. Kpow provides enterprise-grade Kafka tooling. It comes from our experience working with Kafka since 2…
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on “Product-Led Growth for Dev-First Business: Is It Inevitable?”