Branching is one of the most loved features by Neon users (they create ≈500k branches per day on our platform). But because branching is still a relatively new concept for databases, it can take a moment to click. This guide skips the theory and focuses on what Neon users actually do with branching ...

Kiro just announced powers at re:Invent, a new way for developers to access a curated set of tools (each packaged with domain knowledge and best practices) directly from the IDE. Neon is one of the first launch partners, alongside companies like Figma, Stripe, Supabase, Postman, and many others. You...

At Neon, we run hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases as ephemeral Kubernetes pods. Because of our scale-to-zero feature, every time a user connects to their database, there’s a chance that we need to spin up a new Postgres process to serve that connection. The newly spun Postgres instance nee...

Over the past few weeks, you might’ve noticed something in our changelog: we’ve been steadily increasing the number of projects included in Neon’s Free Plan. Why are we doing this? Why now? We’ve reached two significant milestones that have allowed us to do this: We could have chosen to turn these e...

Every developer has their own workflow for promoting database changes from development to production, but this becomes an especially tricky problem in certain applications – for example, codegen platforms. In platforms like Replit, each user may be building multiple versions of their app / running e...

“We didn’t want to spend unnecessary time writing CRUD logic or maintaining a backend. We just connected Better Auth and the Data API and started building. The best part: every Neon branch gets its own Data API URL” Mouaz Anan, Engineer at Axess Intelligence Axess Intelligence is a platform that giv...

MCPs are powerful abstractions, but that power also means risk. A misconfigured or overly permissive MCP server can expose sensitive data, execute unintended actions, and simply ruin your day. We maintain an MCP server at Neon, but we want you to use it safely. Here’s a quick checksheet with advice ...

“Using Neon with Neon Auth just made everything simpler. Our database and auth live in the same place, and it’s the kind of backend you forget it exists. That’s exactly how it should be” Gabriel Tumlos, Founder of Daisy Daisy is a generative media studio building tools that make creativity instant. ...

Good news for Neon users on Vercel. We’ve shipped a few highly requested updates to the integration, plus a round of behind-the-scenes reliability and observability upgrades. Automatic Branch Cleanup Until now, Vercel-managed projects didn’t automatically clean up their database branches after previ...

If you’ve got real data, you’ve got a real problem. And that problem has a name – PII. Suppose your production database contains names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. In fintech, you might also have credit card numbers and transaction histories. In healthtech, medical records. In edtech, stud...

You’re already using Neon, so chances are you’ve got valuable application data sitting in your Postgres database that reflects how people interact with your product. This data can tell you a lot about your customers and help guide product decisions, whether you’re an engineer, a founder, or a produc...

For anyone building apps with AI, iteration is constant: you try different prompts, tweak the logic, and regenerate code until it finally works. At Dyad, a free, local, open-source AI app builder, this cycle is part of every user’s experience. From the start, Dyad made it easy to roll back code chan...

Branching lets developers spin up isolated environments that perfectly mirror production in a single click or API call. This is a major upgrade for developer experience: teams can skip the tedious work of keeping databases in sync and focus on shipping code. But until now, there’s been one limitatio...

Neon’s snapshots feature is now available to all users (in Beta), and you can finally schedule them automatically. You can make snapshots daily, weekly, or monthly from the Backup & Restore page in the Neon Console. Snapshots are built on Neon’s copy-on-write architecture: they capture the exact sta...

We’ve built a new way to connect your app to Neon right from Cursor. You can now run a single command to set up your Neon project, configure the MCP server, and enable the Neon integration: With this one command, Cursor gains full Neon project context: connection details, schema, and best practices ...

Agents aren’t just LLMs; they’re distributed systems that write and execute real code. The moment you give an AI the ability to run SQL migrations, you’ve entered the world of DevOps. You’ve probably seen plenty of full-stack agent demos at this point, starting with a prompt like “build me a task tr...

Databases are often one of the biggest infrastructure expenses for any company. From day one, Neon’s mission has been to make databases radically more efficient through separation of storage and compute, allowing instant autoscaling and better unit economics. Now, with Neon running on Databricks’ gl...

Once upon a pipeline… It was a nice summer evening, and our CI lived happily in a familiar castle: Hetzner. Bare-metal towers gave us everything we needed, with cheap CPU and RAM per unit, free internal traffic, and huge local disks to hoard caches like dragons guard gold. Our workflows were built t...

When Anthropic introduced Claude Skills, of course we tried it right away. This post walks through how we built, tested, and published our first set of Claude Skills for Neon, bundled into a plugin that includes four ready-to-use Skills and an MCP server integration. What’s a Claude Skill Anyway? Tr...

More and more teams are using Neon to power vibe coding platforms, so we decided to build one too – not as our billion-dollar-vibe-coding-startup-side-gig but as a public, open-source template you can use as a starting point to learn how to build codegen agents yourself. We called the agent Aileen, ...

If you’re building open-source tools powered by Postgres, we want to help you grow. The Neon Open Source Program provides up to $5,000 in Neon credits each year, additional real cash payouts through GitHub Sponsorships, and promotional support to help your work reach millions of developers. Why We’r...

When we started building xpander.ai’s agent platform, one of our core promises to enterprise customers was freedom of deployment. Some wanted to run agents entirely inside xpander cloud, using our managed infrastructure. Others needed to host agents on their own Kubernetes clusters – be it simply in...

“For a small team, branching and scale-to-zero just make our lives markedly easier. We’re able to use real data without risky scripts touching production, and we don’t pay overnight for what we don’t use.” — Ryan McHenry, Head of Technology, Sharing Excess What is Sharing Excess? In the United State...

Managing dynamically changing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with constraints in Postgres enables robust tracking of relationships that evolve over time. At traconiq, this pattern is central to how we manage our vehicle fleet, where trucks and trailers attach and detach constantly, and where data ca...

Many of us at Neon use Claude Code almost every day: for debugging, for scaffolding new features, or keeping the flow going when context-switching between projects. I noticed pretty quickly that everyone seemed to have their own way of working with it though.  For me, it clicked once I started exper...

Retool has long been the platform teams turn to for building internal software fast. At this year’s Retool Summit, they announced a big step forward – a new generation of AI-powered capabilities designed to take that speed to another level. They call it enterprise AppGen. Now, enterprises can use Re...

The Neon Data API is now live, a PostgREST-compatible way to query Neon directly over HTTPS. If you’ve used PostgREST before (or you have a platform built on it), you’ll feel right at home: the protocol for the Neon Data API is identical, and migration is as simple as pointing your client to a new [...

“Our system can’t afford any downtime. We manage field staff operations for thousands of workers through WhatsApp, and if a message fails to write, it’s lost. We’re leveraging all of Neon’s multi-region flexibility, autoscaling, and read replicas to optimize reliability at scale” (Ahsan Nabi Dar, CT...

Modern GPS datasets are notoriously noisy: satellites drift, buildings scatter signals, and consumer devices introduce frequent errors. When working with millions of position samples from vehicles, smartphones, or IoT devices, this noise makes analysis unreliable. Routes jump, tracks zigzag, and out...

Postgres 18 just shipped, and as always, it’s available in preview on Neon right away. You can try it right now on Neon’s Free plan, no credit card or setup required. New Features in Postgres 18 Postgres 18 comes with a ton of other exciting updates around performance, flexibility, and developer exp...