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API gateways in 2026: revisit Kong, Apache APISIX and Traefik before you put another gateway in front of your services

Manoj Shukla
October 13, 2026

Picture an agri-inputs distributor in Indore (an invented example, not a real client). Dealers order seed, fertiliser and crop-protection products from a mobile and web app.

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Idempotency keys: revisit your retries before they charge twice

Manoj Shukla
October 6, 2026

A customer taps “Pay”, the spinner keeps turning, the mobile network drops and the app tries again. Between that phone and your database, an SDK, a proxy or a queue consumer may also try again.

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API gateways in 2026: revisit Kong, Apache APISIX and Traefik before you put another gateway in front of your services

Idempotency keys: revisit your retries before they charge twice

Redis, Valkey, or Dragonfly: revisit the choice before you treat them as the same cache

MongoDB 8.0 Performance is 36% higher, but there is a catch…

How Redis Helps to Increase Service Performance in NodeJS

Optimizing MongoDB Performance with Indexing Strategies

MongoDB Decay Over Time: How Deletes and Updates Clog Your Database

Data versioning in 2026: revisit DVC, lakeFS and Dolt before you overwrite another production dataset

SBOMs in 2026: revisit Syft, cdxgen and Dependency-Track before you hand another customer an SBOM nobody tracks

API clients in 2026: revisit Bruno, Hoppscotch and Insomnia before you save another production token in a shared collection

Terraform and OpenTofu pull requests in 2026: revisit Atlantis, OpenTaco and Stategraph before you run another apply from a laptop

Kubernetes multi-tenancy in 2026: revisit vCluster, Capsule and Kamaji before you hand another team its own cluster