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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 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.
Read moreSelf-hosted URL shorteners in 2026: revisit Shlink, YOURLS and Kutt before you share another link through a public shortener
A short link looks like a small thing. It goes into a printed brochure, a QR code on a shop counter, an SMS to customers, a slide in a conference talk.
Read moreSelf-hosted push notifications in 2026: revisit ntfy, Gotify and Apprise before you wire another alert to a chat webhook
Most teams send alerts the same way. A cron job fails, a backup does not finish, a disk fills up, and a script posts a message to a chat webhook.
Read moreSelf-hosted code search in 2026: revisit Zoekt, OpenGrok and Hound before you clone another fifty repos to find one function
Every growing engineering team reaches the same moment. Someone asks “where else do we call this function?”, and the honest answer is to clone fifty repositories and run grep across them.
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