Building the Future of On-Call: Why Velocity Moved from RDS to Neon

Velocity transitioned from AWS RDS to Neon to enhance scalability, flexibility, and simplicity in their AI-powered production engineering platform, which aims to improve incident response time by replacing manual workflows with intelligent automation. Neon offers a serverless, multi-cloud architecture that allows for effortless scaling without dedicated infrastructure management, supporting both AWS and Azure. This switch has led to faster development workflows through Neon's branching model that enables lightweight database clones for safe testing and experimentation. Additionally, Neon provides robust support, real-time database insights, and the ability to handle vector search with pgvector, consolidating Velocity's data stack and optimizing performance without the complexity of multiple specialized databases. This strategic move aligns with Velocity's mission to build a cloud-agnostic AI Production Engineer platform, ensuring reliable support and efficient operations.