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Keycloak and its alternatives: revisit your identity provider before you standardise SSO
A SaaS company in Hyderabad runs Keycloak 24 on two virtual machines. It was set up in 2024 for about 60 internal tools and has worked quietly since.
Read moreArgo CD and Flux: revisit your GitOps controller before you scale or migrate
A platform team in Pune looks after 14 Kubernetes clusters. Most of them are managed by one central Argo CD instance that the team set up in 2021.
Read moreIngress NGINX retirement: revisit your Kubernetes ingress before you migrate
A platform team plans its Kubernetes 1.37 upgrade for the next sprint. The cluster checklist is green, except one line nobody owns: the ingress-nginx Helm chart, pinned at 4.
Read moreIdempotency keys: revisit your retries before they charge twice
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.
Read moreMinIO and its alternatives: revisit your self-hosted S3 in 2026
For many teams, MinIO was the default answer to one simple need: “give us S3 on our own machines”. It sat behind CI pipelines, backup jobs, data lake experiments and almost every docker-compose file that needed a bucket.
Read moreElasticsearch and OpenSearch: revisit the fork before you pick one
Many teams still talk about “our Elastic cluster” when the cluster is actually Amazon OpenSearch Service, or about “OpenSearch” when half the code paths still use an old Elasticsearch client.
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