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

Apr 16, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
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.
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How to give AI Agents secure access to systems (with remote MCP servers)

Apr 14, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
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?
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Your AI agent is one misconfigured MCP server away from leaking production data.

Mar 17, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
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.
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Lenses 6.2 - Trusting Agents to build & operate event-driven applications

Mar 17, 2026 By Andrew Stevenson In Lenses
At Lenses, our goal has always been to help organizations get the most out of their streaming data. We started with visibility into the Apache Kafka, moving up to the part that drives value, the application layer and now the Agentic layer. Lenses 6 moved us into a multi-Kafka world, as increasing, our clients aren’t just running on one type of Kafka anymore, and as sovereign cloud becomes increasingly topical (no pun intended) this is only increasing.
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Kafka Migrations Need More Than a Replicator

Mar 17, 2026 By Jonas Best In Lenses
Jonas Best & Patrick Polster Kafka migrations are one of the riskiest infrastructure projects a platform team can take on. Miss a dependency and a downstream app starts reprocessing events it already handled leading to breaking SLAs and eroding trust with application teams. Migrate without visibility and you risk a major production issue. The instinct is to reach for a replication tool and call it done. But replication is only one piece of the puzzle.
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Simplified Kafka Cluster Migration: Strimzi to AWS Express Brokers with Lenses

Mar 3, 2026 By LensesIO In 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.
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Inside @WhatIfMediaGroup's Massive #Kafka Migration to #Kubernetes | Interview with Ryan Anguiano

Feb 24, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
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.
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