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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 evaluation in 2026: revisit promptfoo, DeepEval and Ragas before you ship another prompt change on gut feel
A prompt change looks harmless in review. One extra sentence in the system prompt, a new model version, a different chunk size in the retriever.
Read moreDocument parsing for RAG in 2026: revisit Docling, Unstructured and Marker before you feed another PDF to your AI pipeline
Most retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) projects start with a quick demo: load a few PDFs, split the text every 1,000 characters, push the chunks into a vector store and ask questions.
Read moreLLM observability in 2026: revisit Langfuse, Arize Phoenix and OpenLIT before you ship another AI feature without traces
Somewhere in your company today, a team is shipping an AI feature that calls a model, maybe a tool, and returns an answer.
Read moreSelf-hosted AI chat front ends in 2026: revisit Open WebUI, LibreChat and AnythingLLM before you paste another internal document into a public chatbot
Somewhere in your company today, a person is pasting a design document, a customer email or a stack trace into a public chatbot.
Read moreNetwork DNS filtering in 2026: revisit Pi-hole, AdGuard Home and Blocky before you hand out another resolver over DHCP
Most teams think about DNS only when it breaks. Yet every laptop, phone, build agent and smart TV on an office or home network asks a resolver thousands of questions a day, and many of those answers lead to trackers, ad networks and the occasional malware domain.
Read moreSelf-hosted pastebins in 2026: revisit PrivateBin, Opengist and MicroBin before you paste another config file into a public pastebin
Every team has done it at least once. Someone needs to share a long log, a YAML file or a stack trace with a colleague, the chat tool truncates it, and the quickest fix is a public pastebin.
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