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The first number from my local PostgreSQL 16 test was roughly 1,600 statements per second. It looked impressive. It was also the least useful result in the run. The useful part was the workload. It came from queries the demo app had actually sent: the same prepared statements, parameters, reads and writes. A synthetic benchmark tells you how PostgreSQL handles a synthetic workload. It does not tell you whether your migration just broke the UPDATE your app depends on.

We’ve expanded status page color customization to give you more control over your branding and support a wider range of color combinations. Previously, you could select one primary color and one text color for each theme. These colors were applied across multiple elements, which could make it difficult to achieve the right contrast or match certain brand styles. Now, you can customize individual parts of your status page separately for both light and dark themes.

Validating SAP patches means answering three questions before anything reaches production: does this apply to my systems, what does it depend on, and what breaks if it goes wrong? For most SAP teams, the answer still comes from manual work. Someone reads the note, checks a component version by hand, updates a spreadsheet, and trusts memory for the rest. That can work, but it depends on one person’s head, or on a spreadsheet that slowly goes stale. The failure mode is usually not a bad patch.

In a market where new tools and technologies are constantly emerging, it is easy to get carried away by features. The real differentiator, however, lies in the impact a solution has on operations. That is what stands out most about Almaden’s solutions. More than a Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform, it turns data into decisions. It enables IT teams to anticipate problems, act proactively, and improve the user experience.

Network operations teams have heard plenty about AI this year. Most of it answers the alert in front of it, then hands the rest of the incident back to an engineer. Someone still has to correlate the evidence, find the cause, prepare the fix, and prove it held. This week, we announced Selector Foundry, the agentic NetOps solution built into the Selector platform. Foundry adds a team of specialized AI agents on top of the full-stack observability and AIOps foundation our customers already run.

A roadmap for the Telecom, Media, Entertainment, and Gaming industries.

Australia’s critical infrastructure landscape has changed significantly. The Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) has evolved from a framework focused primarily on identifying critical assets and reporting incidents into a broader risk-management and operational-resilience regime. The 2024 reforms reinforced that direction, increasing the focus on the systems, data, and technology dependencies that underpin Australia’s essential services.

There is a moment every web user knows by feel. You click a link, read the page, hit Back, and the previous screen is just there. No spinner, no flash of white, no jitter. This is the bfcache (back/forward cache) in action, and for most teams it feels invisible.

When something goes wrong in production, you do not want to spend the first five minutes rearranging charts. You want the error rate, throughput, queue depth, memory, and view metrics that show when customers are having issues while using your app.