We all have experienced what happens when a production database goes down—it’s not fun. No matter the cause, the result is always the same—high stress, downtime, and a rush to restore everything as quickly as possible. How long would it take to get your Postgres database back online? For most, the a...

Are you ever so deeply in the developer grindset that you forget to eat? Me neither. But like most VC-backed companies, I wanted to solve a problem that does not exist 🙂 (not yet at least!) So, we decided to build an extension able to order us cheesburguers for lunch. The Stack First, a look […]

What is the Neon Developer Creator Program?The Neon Creator Program is just one small way to help support developers who are making incredible content. Members will receive a host of benefits including a free Neon Scale account, early access to new features, and sponsored speaking opportunities. The...

We just shipped Neon Private Networking, a feature that lets you connect to your Neon database through AWS PrivateLink with zero exposure to the public internet. If your infra is in AWS, this feature makes it much easier to meet your security and compliance requirements while enjoying Neon’s develop...

At Neon, speed and security go hand in hand. As we continue pushing the boundaries of database technology, we’re opening our platform to the world’s top security researchers to put it to the test. Security isn’t just something we do; it’s built into every layer of Neon. From our infrastructure to ou...

We are thrilled to announce that Nick Turley, Head of Product for ChatGPT at OpenAI, is joining Neon’s Board of Directors. Nick brings deep expertise in product leadership from his roles at OpenAI, Instacart, and Dropbox. “This role represents an opportunity to help shape how a fundamental piece of ...

“It works on my machine” is now a trope—a horror story to tell young developers (or AI coding models) about what it was like to build without today’s stack. Like all clichés, it was once true. Hodgepodge local installs, no containers, and massive environment drift were challenges for local developer...

Testing applications with Postgres presents a common challenge: how do you provide each developer and CI pipeline with isolated, consistent databases to test against? Docker Compose has emerged as the standard solution, offering containerized Postgres instances that can be spun up alongside your app...

This article was first published in the Clerk blog. Around 30,000 websites and applications are hacked every day*, and the developer is often to blame. The vast majority of breaches occur due to misconfiguration rather than an actual vulnerability. This could be due to exposed database credentials, ...

The time is now: you can build voice AI apps that converse with humans using just a few API calls. With Vapi, you can create voice AI agents that don’t just understand users but also respond naturally and dynamically, just like a human. Check this recording out, where James schedules a plumber via S...

We’re excited to announce Neon Auth, a fully managed authentication solution tightly integrated into the Neon platform.  It now takes seconds to provision an auth solution directly from the Neon console; once set up, your user profiles automatically sync to your database. The best part: if you ever ...

To Vercel users deploying Neon via the Vercel Marketplace: we have good news. You can now use Neon’s Native Vercel Integration to automatically create a database branch for each Vercel preview deployment. Check out our docs for a step-by-step guide. Why deploy Neon branches in your Vercel project Yo...

Imagine you’re running a multi-terabyte production database in Neon when you accidentally drop a critical table. Ouch.  You notice the mistake a few minutes later, during which your high-ingestion workload continues pumping new data into the database. How can you recover that dropped table without l...

SQLite is genuinely an incredible piece of technology. Instead of having a list of which companies used the database, the SQLite site simply tells you its on every Android phone, every iPhone, in every browser, in every Mac, in every Windows machine. “Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist ...

“Inngest + Neon handle the entire change data capture process for us. Setting it up took a fraction of the time compared to AWS” (Jacob Devore, Co-Founder at Zap) Zap.xyz is a new crypto aggregation platform that processes millions of messages from community channels like Telegram (they’ll expand to...

These are wild times. It’s now possible to describe a fancy app in a single text prompt, e.g., “Make an AI recipe generator with ChatGPT that lets me enter a food, generate recipes and save my favorites to a gallery for later” And watch a complete app materialize in seconds: If you’ve been playing w...

Your production database is tried and tested and likely bulletproof. Merely mentioning migrating to a new provider would likely set off multiple alarms, so don’t, use a Neon Twin instead. In this post, I’ll show you how to create a partial copy of your production database so you and your team can st...

As soon as GitHub Copilot burst onto the scene, everyone started asking, “How do we teach Copilot about our platform?” Whether you’re building a managed Postgres service (like Neon) or a specialized set of APIs, it’s no longer enough to rely on devs hunting through documentation. They want AI-driven...

As beautiful as a greenfield database is, it’s useless without data. This is not just for production–tests, development, staging, and demos–all need data for proper functionality. This is where seed files come in. Seed files are scripts that populate your database with initial data: admin roles, ini...

If you’ve been keeping up with the Neon story, we introduced database branching in December 2022. Our instant branches—complete copies of production, including data and schema—have enabled thousands of developers to work and test efficiently within the safety of their own isolated environments. Neon...

Imagine your AWS RDS Postgres database scales to 100 TB. Now, sh*t disaster happens—your production instance experiences a critical failure. How would RDS handle different failure modes? And how long would it take to restore full production capability? Production failure modes Production teams commo...

We’ve shipped a Slack app to make it easier to monitor your Neon consumption metrics. By adding the app to your Slack, you’ll receive automatic notifications when you reach your plan limits for compute hours, storage, or data transfer. To install the app, follow the instructions here. How can I get ...

Working with timezones in JavaScript often feels like navigating a minefield. Recently, I faced a timezone issue when building a parking booking app while handling date storage in our database, something you may also encounter if you’re working across timezones. Here’s what went wrong, how we fixed ...

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) works by taking a user’s question, searching for information relevant to that question, and then including the retrieved information alongside the question in a prompt to an AI chat model: ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek, please answer question X using information A, B, ...

AWS workshops are a fantastic free resource created by the AWS team to help you tackle real-world challenges using AWS infrastructure. As an AWS Partner, we’ll be launching an AWS workshop to teach you how to use Neon as a development environment while keeping production workloads on AWS RDS:  You c...

Sometimes you need a Postgres database right now, and you’d like to have it without setting up containers, deploying infra, or creating an account anywhere. Maybe you’re following a tutorial online or testing a quick idea.  Enter Instagres—a tool that lets you spin up a fully functional Postgres dat...

At Neon, we take pride in being GDPR-compliant. We adhere to the regulation’s strict standards, providing our customers with the tools and confidence to manage and protect personal data effectively. In this post, we’ll help you better understand what GDPR entails and how Neon ensures compliance. Wha...

Mocks for databases are extremely brittle and complicated. – javcasas Mocks in general are rarely worth it, the DB ones: 10x so. – pdimitar Was dealing with mocking voodoo garbage this morning as a result of fixing a bug. What a horrible mess just to claim a few lines of “test coverage.” – kerblang ...

We keep expanding our Schema Diff feature, this time adding an API endpoint: compare_schema. You can use it in all your Neon projects, including the Free Plan.  Schema Diff allows you to easily compare schemas between Neon databases. It was first made available via the Neon Console and CLI, and we r...

When you’re building an application, you have to map out how your code will travel through the entire software lifecycle—from writing new features to verifying they work correctly before release. Typically, you’re going to need: The problem with persistent environments  To design these non-prod envi...