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Beyond Docker Compose: An Alternative for Deploying Postgres for Testing
Testing applications with Postgres presents a common challenge: how do you provide each developer and CI pipeline with isolated, consistent databases to test against? Docker Compose has emerged as the standard solution, offering containerized Postgres instances that can be spun u...
Make Yourself at Home with Neon Local
The term ephemeral gets thrown around a lot in the database world, but what does it actually mean? In the context of database branches, it refers to something temporary, short-lived, and not meant to persist. That might sound odd because databases are usually the most permanent p...
Neon Now Runs in VS Code
Developers love using Neon branches for a local development, due to the agility they provide (e.g. fast resets, isolated environments, and the ability to test without polluting production data). But using Neon branches still requires you to manage separate connection strings for...
The Neon VS Code Extension Just Got a Big Update
If you’ve a VS Code user, you might remember the Neon extension under its earlier name, Neon Local Connect. We recently shipped an update for the extension with much more complete functionality: it now understands the repository you have open, detects real Neon connection strings...
Introducing Organization Spending Limits
Your team ships a new feature, traffic spikes, and autoscaling does its job. Great — until the bill arrives and it’s three times what anyone expected. By then it’s too late to do anything about it. Most cloud providers handle this the same way: you find out what you spent after y...