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Lenses.io
Company blog · lenses.io/blog · on HN as masterguidataprogramming
Lenses.io is the company blog at lenses.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2019, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Data dump to data catalog for Apache Kafka”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link lenses.io as a Kafka and streaming data vendor. Its linked pages are mostly job postings, a Kafka UI product page, and discussion of Confluent's commercial Kafka offerings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lenses is a Kafka UI and stream processing tool that helps enterprise engineers manage and explore all Apache Kafka data streams on a unified platform.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-02
- Data dump to data catalog for Apache Kafka2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-05
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
What Hacker News says?
Lenses.io | Senior Go (Golang) Developer | Full-Time | REMOTE (UK, Germany, Spain) | https://lenses.io Lenses.io is seeking two experienced Senior Go Developers to play a pivotal role in reshaping our cutting-edge streaming data platforms. Join our dynamic team dedicated to improve the developer experience (DevEx) in real-time data processing. If you are passionate about driving innovation and have a knack for Go de…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Apache Kafka: Life after the honeymoon period as a story · 31 points
HN discussionLenses.io | Fulltime (perm) | Engineering, Product, Sales Engineering, etc | Remote in UK, GR, FR, IT, NL, ES, DE | https://lenses.io/careers/ We have many positions open, mostly for mid and senior positions. If you apply for one in Product or Engineering we will collaborate often. Specifically for SRE / DevOps and 1st level support we will be working together. For all other positions, we will still spend some time…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Secure Data Discovery for ElasticSearch and Apache Kafka with SQL as a story · 31 points
HN discussion> corporate memphis Links for the lazy. The GP page ( https://lenses.io ) certainly has a lot of good examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://t-artmagazine.com/what-is-corporate-memphis-and-why-...
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on “Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka”Submitted That 3am security call about Apache Kafka as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://lenses.io/cloud/aws-msk/
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on “Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka”Submitted Show HN: How to gain observability across Kafka topics and Elasticsearch as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://lenses.io/ Kafka UI is pretty solid. Nice to see an open source alternative here.
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on “Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka”Submitted Configure alert webhooks into Zapier for SMS notifications as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThey offer commercial support services/contracts for Apache Kafka. They sell proprietary Apache Kafka add-ons for enterprise such as authentication/authorisation RBAC. The open source Kafka release supports auth/authz but not consistently between the suite of tools. They also have a monitoring UI etc. They release the commercial add-ons under the Confluent platform distribution. They heavily push ksqldb which is a s…
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on “Confluent S-1”Submitted New Apache Kafka to AWS S3 Connector as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple and Powerful UDFs for SQL stream processing as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Pulsar walks into a data bar as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Splunk your Kafka Data with SQL and no licensing costs as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple steps to set up Kafka alerts to Prometheus Alertmanager as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Integrate Apache Kafka Flows into Your CI/CD with Jenkins as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure ApacheKafka Flows with Namespaces&more in Lenses.io 3.0 Released Today as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data dump to data catalog for Apache Kafka as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't trust Kafka Connect with your Secrets as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to become a CTO by using your Data Platform as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building streaming pipelines for production – Part 2 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life of PII for Apache Kafka as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is your Kafka broker down? How to stay in-the-know with Email Alerts as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS MSK with Lenses.io – The Perfect Combo as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring arrays in Kafka with lateral joins as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does Apache Kafka with GitOps look like? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our deepened commitment to you (the open-source community) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streaming SQL, Connect multi-tenancy and Kafka message headers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS MSK Kafka with DataOps in five steps as a story · 8 points
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