The term ephemeral gets thrown around a lot in the database world, but what does it actually mean? In the context of database branches, it refers to something temporary, short-lived, and not meant to persist. That might sound odd because databases are usually the most permanent part of your stack. S...

If you’re vibe coding an app, don’t leave the database choice up to the AI code generator. Take control and tell it you want to use Neon. Why? Because Neon’s built-in safety features ensure your app stays secure and runs smoothly, even if you’re not a database expert!  It’s free to sign up, and our ...

Designers often spot a long list of UX papercuts—those small, frustrating issues that quietly erode a products quality—but development teams are often focused on bigger priorities and buried under long backlogs. This is where vibe coding can empower designers to break this cycle. Now, with tools lik...

Most developers approach AI coding with the wrong mental model. The tendency, exacerbated by the vibe coding trend, is to let AI take the wheel. “Build me a UI using Tailwind that lets users see their account info” is an example initial request, followed by more and more short (and curt) instruction...

The first-ever State of AI 2025 survey polled thousands of developers to see how AI tools fit into real workflows, from brainstorming features to debugging in production.  The survey ran from Feb-March 2025 and collected over 4,000 responses from developers around the world. Organized by Devographic...

When working with databases, there are moments when you’d love to freeze time — before making a big change, running a migration, or simply bookmarking a stable state. With snapshots in Neon, that’s now possible. Snapshots provide an easy way to capture a backup of your database at a specific point i...

AI is here. That might seem like a trite comment, but almost a quarter of developers still see AI as something they don’t plan to use: But ‘using AI’ doesn’t necessarily mean vibe coding your application into oblivion. Using AI as a developer means two things: The key to the second is effective prom...

Neon offers the most powerful Postgres API on the market for applications that need to provision and manage thousands of databases programmatically. Whether you’re building a platform (like Retool) or deploying infrastructure through AI agents (like Replit), Neon gives you the tools to do it efficie...

We recently released Neon’s remote MCP server. In this post, we’ll dive deep into how we implemented Neon’s remote MCP server. We’ll explore using Server-Sent Events (SSE) for communication and integrating OAuth 2.1 for authentication. So let’s dive in. Note: If you’d rather watch a video about remo...

When a Postgres failure happens, the time it takes to recover can mean the difference between a relatively minor hiccup and a major business crisis. We regularly hear anecdotes from our customers on this topic, but we also wanted to gather some data—so we surveyed 50 developers managing 1TB+ Postgre...

In this post, I’ll share my experience creating a custom Keycloak plugin that adds functionality for email change events. This plugin solves a common integration challenge: how to trigger actions in your application when users change their email addresses through Keycloak. The Problem: Keeping Syste...

We often take Postgres features like JSONB, Row Level Security (RLS), and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) for granted. Yet, these powerful features we know and love weren’t always available; they’re the result of over 30 years of dedicated development and almost 61000 Git commits. Curious about this r...

At Neon, we like to be on top of things, especially when it comes to AI. We first announced our MCP server back on December 3rd, 2024. That was a long time before MCP really took off, and we’ve been iterating on our MCP server’s capabilities ever since. You can read more about our MCP […]

It’s crazy to think that “vibe coding” started just weeks ago, with this tweet from Andrej Karpathy:  Now, you can get a job as a vibe coder, and Stanford professors are giving lectures on it. That escalated quickly.  In its short life, vibe coding has come to mean all kinds of AI-assisted workflows...

Reddit’s answer for solving noisy neighbors is simple: Have a talk with them, if you can stay calm, be as straight forward as possible. Don’t bend on your position. At least find out what the other neighbors think. Good advice, but it can be difficult to talk to CPUs; they tend not to like it […]

We’re excited to announce that Neon is now a GitHub Secret Scanning Partner, joining a group of leading enterprises and technology firms working to enhance security. This partnership helps protect Neon users by automatically detecting exposed Neon database credentials and API keys in public reposito...

“We used RDS before, but the cost and manual effort of scaling it up and down was a pain. I also wanted one database solution across clouds—and Neon gave us that” (Tal Kain, Founder and CEO at Velocity) When production goes sideways at 2 a.m., the last thing an engineer wants is to fumble through […...

Vercel’s v0 recently introduced integrations for Neon, Supabase, and Upstash. With these integrations, you can easily add persistent storage and deploy full-stack applications in minutes. However, detailed prompting is essential to guide v0 effectively. Since its initial launch, v0 has rapidly evolv...

We just announced that pg_search is available on Neon, making it easier than ever to build fast, full-text search experiences with Postgres. To demonstrate its performance, we forked Vercel’s Book Inventory template and replaced the AI-powered search with native PostgreSQL full-text search using pg_...

Our instant restore feature is a favorite with customers managing multi-terabyte databases—it gives them peace of mind knowing they can recover everything instantly to any point in time if something goes wrong. Most Postgres services offer PITR, but Neon’s implementation is unique—designed around it...

Neon’s serverless driver for JavaScript and TypeScript carries SQL queries over HTTP and WebSockets. It’s designed for use in environments where raw TCP connections aren’t available and/or low connection latencies are important. That includes V8 isolate-based serverless functions and even web browse...

Neon Auth allows you to integrate authentication with your Postgres database, eliminating the traditional complexity of keeping user data in sync. With Neon Auth, your user profiles are exposed in a standard Neon Postgres table, giving you the simplicity of a managed auth solution while maintaining ...

Imagine an IDE that not only writes your code but also provisions, migrates, and queries your Postgres database. Stop imagining—this is possible today with Windsurf. In this blog post, we will explore how Windsurf can be integrated with the Neon MCP server to allow agents to interact directly with y...

“Moving from legacy infrastructure to a fully serverless stack has been a huge upgrade. We wanted our backend to be as hands-off as possible. Now we get all the power of Postgres, without having to think about it” (James Ross, Co-founder and CTO at Nodecraft)  Nodecraft is a game server hosting plat...

Since the release of GitHub Copilot, AI integration in IDEs has evolved dramatically. Now, two IDEs are being talked about more than any other: Windsurf and Cursor. Both tools are forks of VSCode, offer a similar set of features, and use Anthropic’s Claude model under the hood.  I vibe coded with bo...

We’ve teamed up with ParadeDB to bring pg_search to all Neon users, making full-text search in Postgres faster and more powerful. Get Elastic-level speed within Neon—perfect for search-heavy apps, analytics, and filtering large datasets. Try it on the Free Plan. Elasticsearch Powers, Inside Postgres...

If you’re running a B2B SaaS company that operates across multiple regions and needs to stay HIPAA-compliant, managing your Postgres setup can be a real headache. You need to keep customer data isolated while avoiding performance issues caused by shared resources, all while ensuring your architectur...

“When I started RagRabbit, I did testing on vector databases, but I didn’t see a real advantage. Postgres with Pgvector covers everything I need, and it’s very performant for the number of rows I handle” (Marco D’Alia, Software Architect behind RagRabbit) While experimenting with Retrieval-Augmented...

As applications evolve, making changes to your database schema is inevitable, whether you’re adding indexes to keep performance up with a growing user base or adding new features to an existing product. Most of the time, these schema migrations will go smoothly, but if you’re not careful, updating y...

Neon has completed its HIPAA compliance audit, adding to our security achievements: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, and CCPA. If your company needs a HIPAA-compliant database, Neon can now securely store Protected Health Information (PHI). What is HIPAA Compliance? The Health Insurance Por...