Your team ships a new feature, traffic spikes, and autoscaling does its job. Great — until the bill arrives and it’s three times what anyone expected. By then it’s too late to do anything about it. Most cloud providers handle this the same way: you find out what you spent after you’ve already spent ...

A year ago, if you asked an agent about Neon, you got whatever it half-remembered from training. Now it goes looking and reads what it finds. Our docs were written for humans who scroll, not machines that fetch. We’ve been fixing this in pieces, not all at once. This post is what worked, what didn’t...

An official Neon plugin is now available in the OpenAI Codex marketplace. It connects Codex directly to your Neon databases through MCP, so you can provision and manage Postgres databases without leaving your workflow. Once installed, Codex can interact with your Neon account, not just read static g...

Ensuring customer databases are always available is one of the most important things we do in Neon and Lakebase. We’ve designed the system with redundancy at every level, automatically failing over and recovering your database in the event of hardware or software failures. In a large-scale system, s...

For most of 2025, AI coding agents got good at a specific thing: writing code. Give an agent a prompt, and it could scaffold an app, wire up an API, write migrations. But when the code was done, the agent stopped. Spinning up a real database, creating an account, getting credentials into the environ...

“I’m genuinely surprised by how well it handles that scale. You can create tons of databases and they’re available immediately. You can branch out immediately. All of those things make it really nice for agent-managed infra.” Iman Radjavi, Co-founder, Specific.dev What Specific builds Specific (YC F...

There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, ...

“The biggest strength of Neon is how it decouples storage and compute and makes them independently scalable. When an app isn’t being used, the compute node can be put in idle mode at extremely low cost, which lets us handle a wide range of scale and complexity without compromise.” (Nilesh Trivedi, c...

From the start, the team at Encore has been focused on solving a simple problem: shipping production infrastructure shouldn’t require a dedicated platform engineering team. They set out to make deploying real applications feel simple without abstracting away control; in Encore, devs can define infra...

Every AI lab is shipping research agents. OpenAI’s Deep Research, Perplexity, and Gemini’s research mode. These products are not simple RAG pipelines. Recent papers like DeepResearcher and Step-DeepResearch formalize what makes them work: a recursive loop of planning, searching, learning, and reflec...

Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin today from the Cursor Marketplace to give Cursor live access to your Neon organization along with th...

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A few weeks ago, Vercel released add-skill (now npx skills), a CLI for installing agent skills across different coding agents and editors like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. It solves a very real problem: each tool looks for agent skills in a different place, which makes setup repetitive and docu...

“We were getting ready to hire dedicated engineers just to manage and scale Zite Database. With Neon, we didn’t need to do that – we were able to give every end user their own database, including on the free plan” (Dominic Whyte, Co-founder at Zite) Zite is an AI-native app builder for the kind of [...

v0 just went through a big rebuild. What started as a fast way to explore ideas has now evolved into a platform designed to ship real, production-ready software, not just quick demos or one-off prototypes. v0 is no longer about generating code – it’s about helping teams ship. With this release, v0 m...

“Agents don’t want heavyweight infrastructure that lives forever, they want primitives they can spin up, use, and discard as part of their work. Neon fits that model perfectly: it behaves the way agents actually think about state” (Rick Blalock, Co-founder at Agentuity) Existing cloud infrastructure...

“Neon branching fundamentally accelerates our developer experience. It’s a huge reason we’re able to ship faster without worrying about breaking things” (Ben Vinegar, Co-founder at Modem) If you’re a PM or even an engineer at a small startup, this will hit home: This is the pain that Modem is set to...

If you’ve a VS Code user, you might remember the Neon extension under its earlier name, Neon Local Connect. We recently shipped an update for the extension with much more complete functionality: it now understands the repository you have open, detects real Neon connection strings in your project, an...

2026 is starting off hot, and skills are suddenly everywhere. The Agent Skills spec is now supported across all major coding agents and increasingly adopted by developer tools, including Neon. But let’s start from the beginning. The origins of agent skills The concept of agent skills didn’t arrive f...

“Fimo lets teams experiment without fear because you can always roll back. Neon’s branches and snapshots are what make that possible” Pierre Burgy, CEO at Strapi The good folks at Strapi just launched something exciting: Fimo.ai, an AI-native CMS built specifically for real websites. This team has e...

“Neon was so easy to get started, and it worked flawlessly with TanStack Start and TanStack Query. When you start a new project with TanStack Start and select Neon in the CLI, you get a working database instantly and later you can go claim it, which is one of the coolest things I’ve seen” (Tanner […...

If you’re integrating your Vercel preview deployments with Neon, you’re already getting an isolated Postgres branch per preview. We just extended the same automation to authentication. When you use Neon through the Vercel integration and enable Auth, every Vercel deployment gets its own isolated aut...

The logo is refreshed, but it’s still recognizably true to the elephant and N that we founded the company with. Did you know there has always been an elephant hiding in it? This update helps bring our visual identity into the Databricks universe. Since joining Databricks, we’ve grown our amazingly t...

“We chose Neon as our backend because of scale, cost-efficiency, and superior developer and user experience, all critical for Atoms’ multi-tenant architecture. Each user app needs its own dedicated database, and Neon lets us spin up Postgres instances dynamically while only paying for them when they...

Neon is made by Postgres people. Since Neon became part of Databricks, we Postgres people also find ourselves part of a larger organisation of enterprise data people. This post is about what I’ve learned as a result. It aims to explain ‘data lakehouses’ and related enterprise-data tooling in terms t...

You just opened a PR that adds a new user role to your app. Your staging database has the schema changes. Your preview deploy is live. But when QA tries to test it, they hit a wall: the test users in your auth system still have the old roles. Someone needs to manually update them. […]

Looking back at 2025, AI changed coding for good. Early in the year, skepticism around AI-assisted coding was still high and capabilities were limited. Now it’s clear that vibe coding has gone mainstream, and AI-assisted coding is the future of software engineering. That said, we’re still scratching...

“Neon’s branching gave us the last missing piece in our RISE (Robust Isolated Staging Environment): true database isolation. The services that touched schema changes or write-heavy paths could never share a database safely. Now every sandbox gets its own isolated Postgres DB whenever required” (Joe ...

If your application has user accounts, authentication touches everything: who can access what, what data belongs to whom, and how your system behaves when sessions expire or credentials are invalid. Auth is also one of the most commonly mocked components in test suites. The reasoning makes sense. Re...

Staging environments drift. The fix is obvious: refresh staging from production regularly. The problem is that “regularly” and “multi-hour database copy” don’t mix well. Three traditional approaches pg_dump / pg_restore This simple route works for small databases and not critical workloads, e.g. a d...