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How-toDecember 9, 2025JSON schemas to control your Lenses & infrastructure provisioning
Manage Lenses and Kafka configuration with JSON Schemas. Integrate configuration-as-code and powerful validation into your IDE to prevent deployment errors and automate your streaming data application landscape.
How-toMarch 21, 2025Free Kafka tooling: 6 annoying tasks to offload
Lenses Community Edition is a premium Kafka tool for developers to blaze the path to production.
How-toMarch 4, 2025The state of Kafka replication
Discover the state of Kafka replication, its challenges, and solutions for enhancing data sharing, disaster recovery, migration, and managing Kafka clusters.
How-toDecember 20, 2024Luggage lost in a world of streaming data
Looking for real-time data across enterprises is like trying to find a lost suitcase. How can Data Mesh principles improve the experience?
How-toApril 26, 2024UI-driven GitOps: Opening up Kafka without giving up governance
How a powerful interface with RBAC can integrate with your CI/CD.
How-toSeptember 13, 2023Overview of Cloud storage for your data platform
Having the ability to archive Kafka topic data is now essential. In this blog series, learn about the different Cloud Storage solutions available and their benefits
Secret rotation for Kafka Connect connectors with AWS Secret Manager
How to protect & rotate secrets for your Kafka Connect connectors in AWS Secret Manager & the Lenses Secret Provider plugin
Producing Protobuf data to Kafka
Publish Protobuf Data to Kafka Producer from a Java App preview on Lenses box and consume from NodeJS
How to create a Kafka topic (the safe way)
Introducing Lenses Kafka topic policies, for self-service Kafka topic creation.
How-toAugust 27, 2021Change Data Capture and Kafka to break up your monolith
How to build CDC flows into Kafka with full data observability into your microservices and PostgreSQL.
How-toMarch 30, 2021Creating your managed Kafka shortlist
The managed Kafka comparison guide is here to help you make a difficult call. Voila.
Architecting Apache Kafka for GDPR compliance
A complete-ish, long-form guide to addressing Apache Kafka for GDPR with event-driven architecture.
