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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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Self-hosted project tracking in 2026: revisit Plane, OpenProject and Redmine before you move another backlog off Jira
Many Indian software teams did not choose Jira so much as inherit it. Somebody set up a Jira Server licence in 2016, it moved to Data Center when Server ended, and ten years later it holds every bug, every sprint, every customer escalation and half the reasons behind old design decisions.
Read moreSelf-hosted video conferencing in 2026: revisit Jitsi Meet, BigBlueButton and LiveKit before you move another meeting off Zoom
Most Indian companies did not choose their video meeting tool. It arrived in a hurry in 2020, on a credit card, because people had to talk to each other from home.
Read moreSelf-hosted wikis in 2026: revisit BookStack, Wiki.js and Outline before you write another runbook in a shared drive
Ask any support engineer in a growing Indian company where the runbook for a failed nightly job lives, and you will usually get three answers.
Read moreSelf-hosted file sync and share in 2026: revisit Nextcloud, Seafile and OpenCloud before you move another shared drive
Most Indian companies of a few hundred people have the same file story: an old Windows file server with mapped drives that only work in the office, personal Google Drive accounts used by the sales team on phones, and pen drives and large email attachments that nobody can track.
Read moreSelf-hosted team chat in 2026: revisit Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and Zulip before you move another team off Slack
Sooner or later, every growing Indian company has the same conversation about chat. The free plan of a hosted chat tool has started hiding old messages, or the renewal quote for a paid plan has arrived for a few hundred users, or a large customer has asked where the project discussions are stored.
Read moreSelf-hosted email in 2026: revisit Stalwart, mailcow and Mailu before you run another mail server
Every few years, an Indian company with a few hundred people asks the same question about email. The hosted suite renewal has come in higher than last year, or the old mail server set up by a contractor in 2017 is running on an operating system that no longer gets updates, or invoices sent from the ERP have started landing in spam.
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