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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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Reverse proxies in 2026: revisit NGINX, Caddy and HAProxy before you put another proxy in front of your app
Almost every web application we run has something sitting in front of it. A few virtual machines run the actual code, and one or two small servers in front of them accept HTTPS, keep certificates, spread traffic, hide a dead backend and write the access log.
Read moreContainer engines in 2026: revisit Docker Engine, Podman and containerd before you install another container daemon
On most teams, installing a container engine is the first thing done on a new machine and the last thing anybody thinks about.
Read moreDNS servers in 2026: revisit CoreDNS, PowerDNS and BIND 9 before you add another DNS record by hand
In most companies, somebody still adds internal DNS records by hand. A new database gets an IP address, an engineer logs in to the DNS server, types one line into a zone file or a web console, and saves.
Read moreConfiguration management in 2026: revisit Ansible, Salt and Puppet before you write another server setup script
Almost every team has one: a setup.sh or bootstrap.sh written for the first production server and grown every year since. It installs packages, edits configuration files with sed, creates users and starts services.
Read morePrivacy-friendly web analytics in 2026: revisit Matomo, Plausible and Umami before you add another tracking script
Most teams do not choose their web analytics. Someone pastes a Google tag into the site header during launch week, marketing adds Google Tag Manager a few months later, and after that the analytics setup grows by one script at a time.
Read moreMySQL-compatible databases in 2026: revisit MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server before you upgrade another database
Most teams that run MySQL do not choose their database every year. They chose it once, long ago, and since then they have only upgraded it, or not upgraded it.
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