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New IDE-Like Studio for Kafka: Lenses 6.2 Features & Demo

Discover the powerful new IDE-like Studio in Lenses 6.2. Learn how to manage your Kafka clusters, discover topics across multiple environments, and perform side-by-side comparisons of dev and staging data. We also dive into the new ways to interact with streaming data, including the CLI, VS Code plugin, and the new MCP server for AI agents and chatbots. Whether you're a developer troubleshooting schema mismatches or a data engineer managing complex Kafka estates, the new Lenses Studio provides the tools you need to stay in context and work efficiently.

Don't trust AI agents on Kafka. Unless you have OAuth 2.1. (Live)

Every engineering team is onboarding AI agents. Most are doing it without a governance model - static API keys, no audit trail, no way to revoke access if something goes wrong. Join us on April 15th as we go live on the topic everyone is talking about but few are solving: how to govern AI agent access to streaming data.

How to give AI Agents secure access to systems (with remote MCP servers)

AI agents need access to your systems. But are you sure they're accessing them securely? In this video, Tun @DataSurfer breaks down the way most teams give AI agents access today: static API keys, shared credentials, no audit trail. It's a disaster waiting to happen, but what exactly can teams do about it?

Your AI agent is one misconfigured MCP server away from leaking production data.

2025 was vibe coding. 2026 is Agentic Engineering - and the security rules haven't caught up. AI agents now have direct access to your databases, your APIs, your Kafka clusters. The protocol giving them that access is MCP. And most teams have no idea how exposed they are. We are fixing this problem with OAuth 2.1.

Simplified Kafka Cluster Migration: Strimzi to AWS Express Brokers with Lenses

Migrating Kafka clusters doesn't have to be a complex or high-risk operation. In this technical walkthrough, we demonstrate how Lenses K2K managed through Lenses 6 simplifies the migration of mission-critical banking applications from Strimzi to AWS Express Brokers with minimal downtime and zero data loss.

Inside @WhatIfMediaGroup's Massive #Kafka Migration to #Kubernetes | Interview with Ryan Anguiano

In this episode, Drew Oetzel sits down with Ryan Anguiano, Staff Architect at @WhatIfMediaGroup to discuss their massive migration of from legacy EC2 instances to using the @Strimzi operator. Ryan shares deep technical insights into how they optimized their data streaming architecture, including their use of EKS, EBS storage striping, and why the 12-Factor App methodology was the key to migrating over 100 services in just a few months.