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Bare-metal load balancers for Kubernetes in 2026: revisit MetalLB, kube-vip and Cilium LB IPAM before you expose another Service
On a cloud cluster, you write type: LoadBalancer in a Service and a minute later an IP address appears. On your own servers, the same line gives you a Service that sits in <pending> forever.
Read moreInfrastructure monitoring in 2026: revisit Zabbix, Checkmk and Netdata before you add another host to your monitoring
In most Indian companies, monitoring starts with a person, not a tool. Somebody in the IT team logs in to the file server every morning, checks the disk, looks at the UPS panel, pings the branch router, and goes back to work.
Read moreMQTT brokers in 2026: revisit Eclipse Mosquitto, EMQX and NanoMQ before you connect another device to a broker
Most teams do not choose an MQTT broker. They inherit one. Somebody installed Mosquitto from the distribution package on a small VM years ago, gave every device the same username, and it has been quietly running since.
Read moreWeb application firewalls in 2026: revisit ModSecurity, OWASP Coraza and BunkerWeb before you put another WAF in front of your app
A web application firewall is one of those things that gets added after a bad week. A penetration test report arrives, or a customer sends a security questionnaire with a line that says “Do you use a WAF?
Read moreReverse proxies in 2026: revisit NGINX, Caddy and HAProxy before you put another proxy in front of your app
Almost every web application we run has something sitting in front of it. A few virtual machines run the actual code, and one or two small servers in front of them accept HTTPS, keep certificates, spread traffic, hide a dead backend and write the access log.
Read moreDNS servers in 2026: revisit CoreDNS, PowerDNS and BIND 9 before you add another DNS record by hand
In most companies, somebody still adds internal DNS records by hand. A new database gets an IP address, an engineer logs in to the DNS server, types one line into a zone file or a web console, and saves.
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