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Lakehouse table formats in 2026: revisit Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Apache Hudi before you pick another format
Picture a payments and lending analytics platform in Hyderabad (an invented example, not a real client). Card authorisations and EMI schedules still land in PostgreSQL 16.
Read moreReal-time OLAP in 2026: revisit ClickHouse, Apache Doris and StarRocks before you build another dashboard warehouse
Picture an ecommerce and last-mile logistics platform in Bengaluru (an invented example, not a real client). Order capture and inventory still run on PostgreSQL 16.
Read moreDurable 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 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.
Read moreService mesh in 2026: revisit Istio ambient, Linkerd and Cilium before you add sidecars
A logistics company in Bengaluru runs a production Kubernetes cluster with 14 nodes and about 420 pods. Three requests landed in one sprint.
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