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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.

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.

Somewhere in the last year, your team's code output went up. Pull requests are opened faster. The backlog of small fixes and routine changes started clearing quicker than it used to. If delivery still feels roughly as slow as it did before, that's what happens when you speed up one part of a process without touching anything downstream of it.

There’s a specific kind of measurement problem worth naming precisely rather than dramatizing: this month we found that our model-routing agent was assigning a token budget to every unit of work, and that budget was noise in the strict sense. Fixing it meant improving a system that’s mostly right, not tearing one down.