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Fluent 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.

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RabbitMQ, 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.

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Vector search in 2026: revisit pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate before you add a vector database

An e-commerce company in Pune runs customer support on PostgreSQL. The database holds about 2 million help articles, product Q&A threads and resolved tickets, in English and a fair amount of Hinglish.

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Service 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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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.

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Argo 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.

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