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Redis, Valkey, or Dragonfly: revisit the choice before you treat them as the same cache
If your service already uses Redis, the name on the port has not changed. The product behind that name has. Treating Redis, Valkey, and Dragonfly as three labels for one cache is the habit worth unlearning.
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MongoDB 8.0 Performance is 36% higher, but there is a catch…
TLDR: If your app is performance critical, think twice, thrice before upgrading to MongoDB 7.0 and 8.0. Here is why…
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LLM inference serving in 2026: revisit vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp before you put another model behind an API
Picture a product engineering team at a mid-size SaaS in Kochi that builds support automation for Indian NBFCs (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreKubernetes autoscaling in 2026: revisit Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler and KEDA before you scale another node
Picture a mid-size ecommerce SaaS in Ahmedabad with about 2,200 active sellers (an invented example, not a real client). Its platform team of eight runs checkout, catalogue, search and about 55 other services on Kubernetes on a public cloud.
Read moreContinuous profiling in 2026: revisit Grafana Pyroscope, Parca and the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler before you store another flame graph
Picture a GST invoicing SaaS in Pune with about 1,800 business customers (an invented example, not a real client). Its platform team of six runs about 40 services, mostly Go with a few Java and Python ones, on a 12-node Kubernetes cluster.
Read moreData pipeline orchestration in 2026: revisit Apache Airflow, Dagster and Prefect before you schedule another DAG
Picture a two-wheeler loan company in Coimbatore with about ninety branches (an invented example, not a real client). Its data team of five runs about 140 cron jobs on two Linux VMs: shell scripts that pull collections files from a payment gateway SFTP, Python scripts that clean them, and SQL that loads a PostgreSQL reporting database every night.
Read moreBackups in 2026: revisit restic, BorgBackup and Kopia before you trust another backup job
Picture a GST and accounting services firm in Surat with fourteen branches (an invented example, not a real client). Each branch has a small Linux file server for scanned invoices and client folders, the head office runs a PostgreSQL database for its billing and compliance tracker, and about forty staff laptops hold working copies of return files.
Read moreAPI gateways in 2026: revisit Kong, Apache APISIX and Traefik before you put another gateway in front of your services
Picture an agri-inputs distributor in Indore (an invented example, not a real client). Dealers order seed, fertiliser and crop-protection products from a mobile and web app.
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