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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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Uptime monitoring in 2026: revisit Uptime Kuma, Gatus and the Blackbox Exporter before a customer tells you the site is down
Take a travel company in Udaipur that runs an online booking site for about 140 heritage hotels, lake-side guest houses and homestays in Udaipur, Kumbhalgarh and Mount Abu (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreSQLite in production in 2026: revisit Litestream, rqlite and LiteFS before you add another database server for a small app
Picture a small software company in Madurai that builds a job card app for about 60 two-wheeler service centres across southern Tamil Nadu (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreTLS certificate automation in 2026: revisit cert-manager, Certbot and step-ca before the next certificate expires on you
Think of a bicycle and auto parts manufacturer in Ludhiana that sells through about 400 dealers across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and the hill states (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreIn-process analytics in 2026: revisit DuckDB, Polars and chDB before you spin up another warehouse for a small question
Think of a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur that makes T-shirts, polos and kids’ wear for buyers in Europe, the US, the Gulf and Japan (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreVulnerability scanners in 2026: revisit Trivy, Grype and OSV-Scanner before you trust another green scan
Picture a small software company in Bhubaneswar that builds claims and pre-authorisation software for hospitals that deal with health insurance TPAs (an invented example, not a real client).
Read moreTime series databases in 2026: revisit TimescaleDB, QuestDB and InfluxDB 3 Core before you store another sensor reading
Take a cold-chain company in Nashik that runs pre-cooling and cold storage chambers for export grapes and onions at four sites: MIDC Ambad, Pimpalgaon Baswant, Dindori and Niphad (an invented example, not a real client).
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