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Neon is a much smoother experience than Supabase. Also the branching ability of Neon is incredible.

08.12.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Editions Collection β€” Postgres with pg_search View 53 million editions from Open Library.

To finish up, here’s a demo: fyi.neon.tech/pgsearch

Search over 50 million records using pg_search and Neon!

18.03.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Will Riker wall clock where the hour and minute hands are his legs

Will Riker wall clock where the hour and minute hands are his legs

the perfect wall clock doesn't ex......

10.03.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4019    πŸ” 1159    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 69

Yes! Cool effect

07.03.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:

1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem

* Hyperbole. I hope

05.03.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 445    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 16

thanks for the feedback!

18.02.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Copy your database in milliseconds A demo to create a copy of your database, make changes to it, and restore it to the original state in milliseconds..

Sometimes demos of Neon are so fast, they kinda feel fake and there isn't enough time to stop and say "this is the cool bit"
No idea how to fix this. Not sure if I should
neon-demos-branching.vercel.app

17.02.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How AI agents should handle infra: What we learned deploying 480k databases for agents First it was Replit , this week Create XYZ, more big ones in new verticals coming soon. As a category, AI Agents are now creating databases on Neon at more than 4x the rate of developers.

Agents love fast provisioning

Agent companies love scale-to-zero pricing

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ai...

13.02.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

enjoy! The DLC is a perfect addition to a perfect game

04.01.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
United States of America. We are a community of 240
million human beings among the more than 4 billion who
inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still
divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly
becoming a single global civilization.
We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our
civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of
the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some -- perhaps many --
may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations.
If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can
understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may
live into yours.
We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of
galactic civilizations.
This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good
will in a vast and awesome universe.

United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization. We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some -- perhaps many -- may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.

message from Jimmy Carter

30.12.2024 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

They eat a cold carb
They eat a hot carb
They eat a cheesy carb
They eat a chocolate carb

They eat a carb that remind them of the good times

They eat a carb that reminds them of the best times

26.12.2024 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8853    πŸ” 1022    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 79

3 terminals open, synthwave blaring through headphones, upgrading gentoo
ah, this is living

16.12.2024 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like a free loan

16.12.2024 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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this guys seattle startup is doing very well.

…still could use a Postgres database that go go goes! ⚑

14.11.2024 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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GitHub - Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake: Columnstore Table in Postgres Columnstore Table in Postgres. Contribute to Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake development by creating an account on GitHub.

Native columnstore tables in Postgres (via DuckDB) πŸ‘€

github.com/Mooncake-Lab...

30.10.2024 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Neon Deploy Stage β€” Neon Join us online on October 30th at 10:00 AM PT to learn how Neon empowers developers to ship faster with Postgres.

Neon Deploy is our 1hr ship event - starting in 5 minutes - lots to announce, hope you enjoy!

neon.tech/stage

30.10.2024 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similar

Found myself sharing Distributed Systems for Young Bloods by the inimitable @jmhodges.bsky.social earlier today. It's good stuff www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/n...

30.09.2024 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

just came here to post this

30.09.2024 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i had a good time learning about video games :] the first game character was Mario the Wanderer, who seeks what has been lost. the second game character was Luigi the Wanderer, who seeks what has been lost

29.04.2024 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big news coming from #neondatabase on the 15th!

10.04.2024 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is Neon? - Neon Docs Neon is a fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. Neon separates storage and compute and offers modern developer features such as serverless, branching, bottomless storage, and mo...

Neon is really cool. Serverless PG, and open source. This is kinda the holy grail, right?

neon.tech/docs/introdu...

20.09.2023 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neon @ #FOSDEM

See you at FOSDEM and FOSDEM PGDay 2024

neon.tech/blog/see-you...

01.02.2024 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

not just you. Muse and Metric over here

11.01.2024 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Try out The Apocalypse Players. They lean into the horror but also have a good time

11.01.2024 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Highlight of my day: smashing 6 pumpkins with a spade so they'd fit into our compost bin

Low-light: Pulling a neck muscle in a freak flower-arranging accident

03.11.2023 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to get started over here, I think. Maybe late to the party. Hi!

02.11.2023 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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