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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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Durable execution in 2026: revisit Temporal, Restate and DBOS before you hand-roll retries, sagas and cron jobs
Picture an online pharmacy and diagnostics booking company in Ahmedabad (an invented example, not a real client). An order goes through five steps: hold the medicine stock, take the UPI payment, book a courier slot, send the customer an SMS, and, if the courier cannot pick up within four hours, release the stock and refund.
Read moreKubernetes admission policy in 2026: revisit Kyverno, Gatekeeper and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy before you add another policy engine
Picture a health insurance technology company in Chennai (an invented example, not a real client). Its platform team runs eleven Kubernetes clusters.
Read moreContainer image builds in 2026: revisit BuildKit, Buildah and kaniko before you change your CI builder
Picture a payments software company in Pune (an invented example, not a real client). Since 2021 its GitLab runners on Kubernetes have built every service image with gcr.
Read morePostgreSQL high availability: revisit Patroni and CloudNativePG before your next failover
Picture a lending company in Bengaluru (an invented example, not a real client). Its loan ledger runs on PostgreSQL 16 across three VMs, managed by Patroni with a three-node etcd cluster and HAProxy in front.
Read moreFluent Bit, Vector and the OpenTelemetry Collector: revisit your log pipeline before you ship more logs
A logistics company in Pune runs about 600 pods across three Kubernetes clusters. A Fluentd DaemonSet, set up in 2019 with a dozen Ruby plugins, ships about 25 crore log lines a day to Loki.
Read moreRabbitMQ, NATS and Kafka queues: revisit your message queue before you add another broker
A health insurance company in Hyderabad processes claims through RabbitMQ: three nodes on 3.13 with classic mirrored queues, about 40 lakh messages a day, from claim documents to OCR, OCR results to fraud checks and approvals to payments.
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