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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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Data versioning in 2026: revisit DVC, lakeFS and Dolt before you overwrite another production dataset
Many data teams have lived this week. A nightly job writes a fresh feature table to a shared prefix such as s3://claims-prod/features/current/.
Read moreSBOMs in 2026: revisit Syft, cdxgen and Dependency-Track before you hand another customer an SBOM nobody tracks
Many product teams have lived this week. A large customer’s security questionnaire asks for “an SBOM for the current release”. Someone runs a tool on the release branch and emails a few megabytes of JSON.
Read moreAPI clients in 2026: revisit Bruno, Hoppscotch and Insomnia before you save another production token in a shared collection
Most backend teams have lived this week at least once. A new joiner asks for “the collection”. Someone exports a JSON file from a shared Postman workspace and drops it in the team chat.
Read moreTerraform and OpenTofu pull requests in 2026: revisit Atlantis, OpenTaco and Stategraph before you run another apply from a laptop
Most infrastructure teams know this Friday evening. A developer runs terraform apply from a laptop because “it is a small change”.
Read moreKubernetes multi-tenancy in 2026: revisit vCluster, Capsule and Kamaji before you hand another team its own cluster
Sooner or later a platform team gets the same request again. A product squad wants “its own cluster” because it needs to install an operator with cluster-scoped CRDs, a data team wants admin rights to try a new scheduler, and a customer-facing team asks for hard isolation because an auditor said so.
Read moreProgressive delivery in 2026: revisit Argo Rollouts, Flagger and PipeCD before you ship another big-bang deploy
A Kubernetes RollingUpdate feels safe because pods come up gradually and readiness probes gate traffic. For many services that is still fine.
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