One of our goals during the past few months was to improve the developer experience when using Prisma with Neon. This article highlights all the improvements we shipped, including reducing cold starts, having a better experience working with Prisma Migrate, and improving connection pooling support. ...

There's been a lot of talk about pgvector performance lately, so we took some datasets and pushed pgvector to the limits to find out its strengths and limitations.

Here's how to adjust your key repeat rate within i3.Controlled by XorgX Window System is a window system for Unix. Aka Xorg. Aka X. Aka X11, because v11 is its latest stable release. This is the default display server for Ubuntu/derivatives.Keyboard repeat is controlled by Xorg, not i3 per se. i3 is...

Here's how to remap a keyboard key in i3.Controlled by XX Window System is a window system for Unix. Aka Xorg. Aka X. Aka X11, because v11 is its latest stable release. This is the default display server for Ubuntu/derivatives.Keyboard mapping is controlled by X, not i3 per se. i3 is the window mana...

Developers seeking easy AI integration in their products will benefit from the globally distributed API feature introduced by PubNub.

Developers seeking easy AI integration in their products will benefit from the globally distributed API feature introduced by PubNub.

Today, we are releasing Neon CLI, a command-line interface that enables developers to manage Neon resources directly from the terminal! With Neon CLI, you can handle authentication, and manage projects, branches, databases, roles, and much more without leaving your command line. Get started by insta...

Impersonated Role Settings, Configurable Isolation Level, improved Bulk Insert, and more

We’re excited to announce the release of our pg_embedding extension for Postgres and LangChain! The new pg_embedding extension brings 20x the speed for 99% accuracy to graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search to your Postgres databases.  While the pgvector extension with IVFFlat indexing has ...

Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries.  We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first developed the Neon drive...

Today, we are excited to introduce same-region read replicas to Neon’s serverless architecture, an important milestone in achieving global replication.  To start using Neon’s read replicas, you’ll need to sign up for Neon’s Pro plan. You can create a read replica on the Neon console:  Or using the N...

Here's how to set screen brightness in Linux terminal.Install CLIYou need a little tool:sudo apt install brightnessctlCurrent and Max BrightnessYou can see what the current brightness level is and what the max possible level is by typing:brightnessctlAnd getting feedback like:Device 'intel_backlight...

Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of our enhanced driver for your Postgres queries at the Edge.  With this release, developers can observe a 40% reduction in query latencies from Vercel Serverless Functions and Edge Functions, bringing same-region queries down to single-digit millisecon...

Before I discovered math, I was a first year undergrad computer science student taking Electrical Engineering 101. The first topic I learned was what bits and boolean gates are, and the second was the two’s complement representation of a negative n-bit integer. At the time two’s complement seemed to...

I started drawing these little houses a while ago, but never finished the project. Meanwhile, I decided to participate in Plot Party postcard exchange. So, I came back to my houses and used them to generate little towns as postcards. At the moment, they are on their way to five different countries, ...

Application Performance and Quality Testing: Strategies for Reliable and High-Performing Apps

Application Performance and Quality Testing: Strategies for Reliable and High-Performing Apps

When properly implemented, continuous delivery practices and processes allow your mobile teams to build and deploy products at a much faster rate by improving developer productivity. We explore how. The post How Continuous Delivery Improves Mobile Developer Productivity appeared first on Novoda.

In a recent roundtable with London CTOs, a fascinating insight emerged: one CTO mentioned that he saves between 1 to 5 hours a day using GPT-3, a generative AI model. The post Unleashing Productivity: The Power of Generative AI in the White Collar Sector appeared first on Novoda.

Here's how to start a server in Jest.Test ScenarioJest is a test environment. It'll run all sorts of tests. Most commonly, you might set up a unit test. You'll import some src from your test, exercise it and make assertions on output.But sometimes you might want to test something larger than a unit....

Here's how to compile JSX in jest tests that use SWC, or Speedy Web Compiler.InstallWellll, this is an article about a toolchain that's getting a little long. Of course, not as bad as it could be. We have only one babel plugin here, after all.npm install jest @swc/core @swc/jest @babel/core @babel/p...