How Dispatch speeds up development with Neon while keeping workloads on Aurora

Dispatch, a technology company focused on improving last-mile delivery, has started leveraging Neon to enhance its development processes and tackle challenges posed by its existing AWS Aurora infrastructure. With operations in over 75 U.S. markets, Dispatch traditionally faced issues with overprovisioning Aurora to manage spiky traffic patterns, resulting in inefficiencies. By utilizing Neon’s serverless writer endpoints and branching model, Dispatch can create isolated, ephemeral environments that simplify data management and testing, reducing operational burdens and costs. This transition supports their move towards a microservices architecture, enabling more agile workflows by allowing realistic data replication for testing without the need for extensive data transfers. The company integrates Neon with Kubernetes to automate environment creation, and Neon’s read replicas are used to improve the efficiency of data pipelines, particularly for ETL and analytics tasks.