We’re Neon, a cloud-native serverless Postgres solution. With Neon, your Postgres databases and environments are just one click away. You can still benefit from serverless Postgres if your application isn’t serverless. Try using Neon’s serverless Postgres with your long-running applications today. W...

Using Neon has meant our developers can continue to spend their time on things that meaningfully drive the business forward, instead of babysitting infrastructure. Adithya Reddy, Developer 4 at Branch Branch is a leader in innovative home and auto insurance that’s simple to buy and built for savings...

Extensions in PostgreSQL are comparable to libraries in programming languages or plugins in web browsers. They are pivotal in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, providing additional functionalities ranging from encryption and AI to handling time series and geospatial data. More complex extensions can transfo...

AI, no-code, and low-code have captured the world’s imagination. Developers now have an easier time adding new features than ever before. These new tools have really made a difference for developers, helping them build bigger systems, and do it all much faster.  In this article, I want to draw your ...

PostgreSQL is a database that needs no introduction. Started as an open-source project out of UC Berkeley, it has evolved through decades of careful stewardship to become one of the world’s most relied on and beloved relational database management systems (RDBMS).  There will inevitably come a time ...

Do you have questions about PostgreSQL or Neon? We built a custom Neon and PostgreSQL OpenAI GPT expert to help you with your queries and projects. OpenAI’s GPT allows developers to create custom ChatGPT experiences to perform specific tasks or answer questions about a given topic.  This article wal...

Now that Neon supports logical replication, your head might be filled with questions about how to turn this new feature into interactive data apps, better customer experiences, and other use cases ripe for fresh data. Do you need to rethink your architecture? Does your team need to catch up with all...

Modern applications often require loosely coupled components and services that help teams and systems to scale. These data pipelines generate continuous data streams that need to be replicated, processed, or analyzed.  However, moving data between different data stores can seriously compromise the q...

Neon provides you with fully hosted and managed PostgreSQL instances. These instances have advanced branching and autoscaling features and are accessible using a connection string and a secure password.  We understand that having multiple layers of security in place is essential to safeguard your da...

We are very excited about the new PolyScale integration with Neon. Neon’s serverless Postgres separates storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage, while PolyScale is a fully autonomous database cache, which makes the two services a match made in heaven.  With the Po...

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution that centralizes authentication and authorization management. It provides features such as single sign-on (SSO), two-factor authentication, social login, and user federation with LDAP or Active Directory user federation. Various iden...

One of the benefits of Neon’s serverless architecture, which sets it apart from other Postgres providers, is its database branching capabilities.  Neon’s database branching allows you to create an instant copy-on-write clone of your data (a child branch) that you can modify without compromising your...

We’re Neon, and we’re redefining the database experience with our cloud-native serverless Postgres solution. If you’ve been looking for a database for your RAG apps that adapts to your application loads, you’re in the right place. Give Neon a try, and let us know what you think. Neon is cloud-native...

In the rapidly progressing world of artificial intelligence, choosing the right model for AI-powered applications is crucial. This article explores a comparative analysis of the Mistral 7B model, a promising alternative to OpenAI’s GPT models and BAAI models in the context of Retrieval Augmented Gen...

In the past two months, we’ve had several incidents that affected different aspects of our service. We’ve been transparent about them, and we made sure that each major one included details on what happened, the size of the impact, and what we’re doing to prevent it from happening again. We’ve commun...

Neon’s user base and community continue to grow and, based on your feedback, we’ve created another avenue for you to connect and collaborate. Our Discord server will foster connection and collaboration between you and our team, support a Q&A forum, and enable you to provide us with feedback. We chos...

We’re excited to announce we have rolled out a new integration with PolyScale to distribute and cache your data globally, ensuring low-latency read queries no matter where in the world you are. The integration achieves this without the complexities of cross-regional replication or extensive coding a...

We have some exciting news on the security front – this month, we’ve successfully passed the SOC 2 Type 2 audit, following closely on the heels of our Type 1 audit in June. This accomplishment underscores our commitment to staying at the forefront of security standards.  This article details our pat...

This guide will teach you how to build a serverless API using AWS Lambda, CDK (with TypeScript), and Neon. You will create a REST API with a single HTTP endpoint that returns a list of products from a Neon database. You can find the complete code for this guide on GitHub. Prerequisites Assumed knowl...

Coding in a local development environment provides developers with faster feedback cycles and facilitates the use of their preferred development tools. After completing their coding tasks, developers usually push their code to a source control management platform like GitHub and open a pull request ...

We recently sponsored All Things Open 2023, and a consistent question that people asked at the stand was, “What is Serverless?”. Proof that knowledge distributes unevenly across the Internet. Given that AWS Lambda launched in 2014, some might be surprised that this question is still being asked. I g...

npm is bursting with useful libraries. But many of them assume they’re running in Node.js, and throw errors elsewhere. Based on his experience developing Neon’s serverless driver, George shows how you can run NPM packages in other places — such as Vercel Edge Functions, or even web browsers — using ...

At Neon,  we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled with the utmost care and security. As part of our ongoing efforts to protect your data and maintain transparency, we are pleased to inform you that we have updated our Privacy Policy.  Privacy P...

The psql client accepts a new connection string option in Postgres 16: ?sslrootcert=system. This new option makes it simpler than ever to connect a secure interactive session to your Neon database: You can use psql version 16 with this new option even if your Neon database is still on Postgres 14 or...

I’ve prepared a sample repository showing the implementation for a site built using Astro and deployed to Vercel. I’ve used this same approach for my own site, paulie.dev, and I’ll explain how I’ve used the data to create the visualisations on my dashboard. For good measure, I’ve also created a Next...

pg_embedding has introduced the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) index to Postgres, allowing vector search to scale in Postgres. But with the addition of HNSW to pgvector 0.5.0, we see little benefit to the community to have to choose between two vector search extensions for Postgres. After...

Vector embeddings have become an essential component of Generative AI applications. These embeddings encapsulate the meaning of the text, thus enabling AI models to understand which texts are semantically similar. The process of extracting the most similar texts from your database to a user’s reques...

In this post, I’d like to introduce Neon’s serverless driver which is suitable for use with Vercel Edge Functions. I’ll explain how to use it with Next.js and a free Neon serverless Postgres database Here’s a demo I created. I’ve called it Ping Thing.  What does Ping Thing do? When users click Ping,...

We’re excited to announce that Neon now supports Postgres 16. This latest release includes several performance improvements and developer experience enhancements. One of the most anticipated features is the expanded support for SQL/JSON syntax, including: In this article, we will cover these new fun...

In this guide, we’ll cover what read replicas are, how they work in Neon, and how to leverage them to scale your Prisma applications. What is a read replica? A read replica is a read-only synchronized copy of your primary database. It offloads read traffic from your primary database to improve perfo...