Neon: A New Approach to Database Development
Blog post from Neon
Neon is now Generally Available, offering improvements to Postgres internals and addressing scalability issues. It aims to provide a better developer experience for building database applications, prioritizing efficiency and engineering velocity. Neon's architecture separates storage and compute, allowing for faster scaling, branching, and restoration of databases. This enables developers to work on different branches without conflicts, and scales independently of storage, reducing the need for manual resizing. With Neon, users can create isolated copies of their data in seconds, reducing waiting times for clusters, databases, and colleagues' changes to deploy. The platform is designed to take the overhead out of starting, stopping, creating, and cloning databases from hours to seconds, focusing on providing everything Postgres developers need and less.