Adopting Neon branching in CI/CD pipelines: a practical story by Shepherd

Shepherd, an insurtech startup, adopted Neon branching in their CI/CD pipelines to save developer time and money. They were attracted to Neon's serverless architecture with auto-scaling and scale to zero, which eliminated the need for manual database setup and scaling. This enabled them to immediately create temporary branches for testing without wasting resources or engineering bandwidth. Shepherd integrated Neon branching into their existing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, which streamlined their development and deployment processes. The adoption of Neon branching provided improved workflows, automatic scalability, and reduced risk, allowing the team to deploy database changes more efficiently and effectively.