Lenses 3.0
For over twenty years as a data engineer working on “Big Data” projects, I was constantly fighting technical, operational and compliance problems getting projects into production.
Environments were continuously becoming more complex, they were not: built, deployed, monitored or secured in the same way and required hard to find engineering skills.
This drove me to help build Lenses.io. The mission we are on? Develop a light-weight solution, that I, as a data engineer would use several times a day, accelerating and empowering me to deliver in a few days, a data project that would normally require an army of engineers months to build.
Lenses empowers organisations to create and curate new data experiences and products with technologies such as Apache Kafka and Kubernetes. Removing the mundane infrastructure, operational, security and governance challenges by providing visibility and confidence to both engineers and the business.
In the past few years, we have helped some of the most pioneering companies in the world on their DataOps journey. Including the likes of Zopa, Babylon Health, Namely, Daimler and Komatsu and many more that I’m not allowed to mention!
Our customers, like us, want to step-on-the-gas when delivering real-time / streaming data across their organisation. And one of the biggest challenges in this endeavour is concerns around data privacy, ethics and the ability to control and audit data access. I have seen too many projects and use cases being delayed until these concerns are addressed, and every organization feeling like they have to develop an in-house solution.
I’m delighted to announce today our 3.0 release. We focused our engineering efforts on enabling organisations and everyone from data engineers to business analysts to share and deliver streaming data whilst protecting data privacy, auditing data access and promoting data ethics.
We also understand that for adoption to be successful, users that aren’t developers or have coding skills need to be brought on board. In all our releases we empower people to use a skill that exists in abundance: SQL. And now with 3.0, we’ve refreshed our UI and user experience to make it even simpler and more intuitive to explore and identify valuable data and build code-free streaming applications with SQL.
Want to know more: Check out our release blog here:
https://lenses.io/blog/2019/09/lenses-3-0-release/
