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Self-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.
Read moreEmbedded key-value stores in 2026: revisit RocksDB, LMDB and Pebble before you build another storage layer
Sooner or later, every backend team meets a problem that looks too small for a database server and too big for a JSON file.
Read moreSelf-service BI in 2026: revisit Apache Superset, Metabase and Lightdash before you build another dashboard
Most companies do not decide to “adopt a BI tool”. They drift into one. An analyst installs something on a spare virtual machine to stop emailing Excel files.
Read moreWide-column databases in 2026: revisit Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB and YugabyteDB YCQL before you design another partition key
Most teams meet a wide-column database through one table that grew too fast for everything else: an event log per user, a delivery history, a feed or a “last 90 days of activity” screen.
Read moreTeam password managers in 2026: revisit Vaultwarden, Passbolt and Psono before you share another password in a spreadsheet
In most small companies the first password manager is a spreadsheet. It starts with five rows: the domain registrar, the office router, the AWS root account, the payment gateway dashboard and the Wi-Fi.
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