Introduction At Grab, innovation isn’t just about building new features; it’s about evolving our platforms to meet the changing needs of our users and the broader technological landscape. SpellVault, our internal AI platform, exemplifies this philosophy. When SpellVault was first launched, our visio...

A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit

“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...

We take code correctness and code quality seriously at Wealthfront. One of the most effective ways we ensure that our code is correct is through rigorous unit testing and strong typing. In Kotlin, sealed classes and sealed interfaces offer a powerful tool to model restricted class hierarchies. They ...

I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York. It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last year.

From March to October we simulated traffic tsunamis, injected chaos, and fixed every bottleneck before our merchants needed us most.

The holidays amplify an inherent risk to businesses: lighter staffing, heavier traffic, and zero appetite for surprises. In addition to locking in your coverage crew... The post Holiday Readiness Guide for On-Call with Shift Agent appeared first on PagerDuty.

N+1 queries are one of the most common performance killers in Rails apps, but also one of the easiest to fix. In this post, we'll see how a single line of code can reduce 1,101 database queries down to 3. N+1s occur in rails when you have associated ActiveRecord models, and iterate over one model wh...

As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility. One underused API for unsighted users is speechSynthesis, an API to programmatically direct the browser to audibly speak any arbitrary string. The C...

We just launched our Cursor Cloud Agent integration. Now when Seer finds a bug, it can hand it off to Cursor—replete with all the context Sentry has about the i...

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 ...

Background A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that outlines how well a product aligns with accessibility (a11y) standards. Its primary purpose is to inform customers about a product’s a11y features, enabling them to make informed decisions before purchasing software. At ...

I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar. Again it’s dominated by the AI wave, with lots of blips capturing our explorations of how to use LLMs and similar technology. “Agents” are the big thing these ...

Did you know the versioning of AndroidX libraries and their stability guarantees are different from most libraries? Their betas and RCs are actually production-ready, and you should be using them! In a “normal” library, such as the ones I release, features are added and known bugs are fixed to produ...

Warp’s new features expand what agents can do and how you can interact with them: Full Terminal Use lets the agent use the terminal as you would: interacting with REPLs, debuggers, and full-screen apps like top. Warp is the only product on the market with Full Terminal Use capabilities. /plan allows...

you were asked to lead or own a project. Now what? Here are a few practical steps to help you succeed.

Two years ago, Sentry built a metrics product that worked great on paper. But when we dogfooded it, we realized it was not what our customers really needed. Two...

jk, we didn't really do that. Like everyone else, our AI journey started with a chatbot. From the first “you're absolutely right!” it crawled, then…

Picture this: you've spent days building a feature. It looks perfect on dev and checks are green. You hit deploy, grab a coffee, and feel good about…

You can sign Git commits and tags with SSH keys instead of GPG.

you were asked to lead or own a project. Now what? Here are a few practical steps to help you succeed.

“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...