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You didn’t become a developer to spend hours hunting down missing messages, or debugging consumer issues. Yet here we are. Valuable dev time evaporates as you wrestle with Apache Kafka, or wait for a central team to unblock you, when you should be finding, prepping, and shipping streaming data in minutes. Lenses Community Edition tackles these everyday frustrations.

New York City, US - February 12, 2025 - Lenses.io, a data streaming innovation leader whose software helps developers power the world’s largest businesses, today announces the development of an enterprise grade and vendor-agnostic Kafka-to-Kafka replicator. It will enable organizations to share streaming data across different domains, in order to keep up with real-time data demands as AI adoption grows.

As organizations adopt specialized streaming technologies, real-time data is increasingly distributed across multiple domains, clouds, and locations. With the rapid evolution of streaming-dependent technologies, companies need the ability to pivot between providers almost instantly to spread risk and maintain performance (just look at the January DeepSeek-R1 LLM news).

Buckle up, we’re past the AI hype. Now, it’s about making intelligent systems that act on our behalf. In 2025, AI isn’t just a tool– it’s becoming our core way of operating, powered by real-time data. How we stream, manage and monetize that data will define the next generation of business. Here, we zoom into four examples of what autonomous real-time intelligence could look like in the coming year.

The need to democratize and share data inside and outside your organization, as a real-time data stream, has never been more in demand. Treating real-time data as a product, and adopting Data Mesh practices, is the way forward. Here, we explain the concept through a real-life example of an airline building applications that process data across different domains.