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Time Travel with Serverless Postgres
One unfortunate scenario you might run into is running a SQL query that accidentally results in data loss. To deal with this issue, you would typically need to have backups and then roll back your database to a previous state. Neon’s database branching feature enables you to crea...
How to self-host Mastodon
In this guide, you will learn how to self-host your own Mastodon instance. If you’re interested in self-hosting Mastodon without getting into the technical details, you can check out the list of dedicated Mastodon hosting providers. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is an open-source, d...
Full-Stack Preview Deployments with Vercel and Neon
We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Neon integration for Vercel in beta! The integration allows you to connect a Neon Postgres database to a Vercel project and create a database branch for every Preview Deployment. To get started with the integration, check out the docu...
A database for every preview environment using Neon, GitHub Actions, and Vercel
In this guide, you will learn how to leverage Neon’s branching feature to create a database for every preview environment. We will use Vercel as an example deployment provider and GitHub actions as the CI/CD tool. Staging environments and why they are not ideal Teams often set up...
Why SQL template tags are not vulnerable to SQL injection attacks
SQL injection is one of the most well-known security vulnerabilities, allowing attackers to manipulate database queries and potentially gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. However, using our serverless driver, you can continue to write queries as you always have, but feel...
Web-based AI SQL Playground and connecting to Postgres from the browser
A few months back, we had an internal AI hackathon at Neon where we could learn and experiment with OpenAI’s APIs. One of the ideas was to build an online AI SQL playground for Postgres. It would enable developers to connect to a Neon Postgres database and have an AI assistant ge...
Build a serverless API using Cloudflare Workers, Drizzle ORM, and Neon
In this guide, you will learn how to build a serverless API using Cloudflare Workers, Hono, Drizzle ORM, and Neon. What are Cloudflare Workers? Cloudflare Workers enable you to build and deploy serverless code instantly across the globe without worrying about managing and scaling...
Understanding Neon’s object hierarchy
To use Neon to its full potential, it is important to understand its object hierarchy. Before diving in, we will first go over the experience of provisioning a managed Postgres instance and why it was necessary to introduce a new architecture to make Postgres cloud-native. Tradit...
Introducing the Neon Partner Program
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our official Neon Partner Program, which makes it possible to integrate Neon into any application seamlessly. Keep reading to learn how you can become a partner and the types of integrations we offer. Neon’s OAuth integration The first typ...
Improving the developer experience for Prisma users
One of our goals during the past few months was to improve the developer experience when using Prisma with Neon. This article highlights all the improvements we shipped, including reducing cold starts, having a better experience working with Prisma Migrate, and improving connecti...
Using Neon branching for instant Point in time recovery
In this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage Neon branching to programmatically restore your data to a previous state. What’s Neon? Neon is a fully managed serverless Postgres. This means you do not have to pick a size for your database upfront, and it will automatically allocate...
On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding
A few weeks back, we released pg_embedding, a new extension for Postgres and LangChain which introduced Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes for vector similarity search. This new indexing method resulted in 20x faster queries at a 99% accuracy compared to tradition...
Fullstack preview environments using Neon and Qovery
In this guide, you will learn how to create a Neon branch for every Qovery preview environment. What are preview environments? This enables developers to build new features in parallel without affecting each other. It also makes it possible to do frequent small releases, making i...
Semantic search using OpenAI, pg_embedding and Neon
A few weeks back, we published an AI-powered app where you can submit an idea for a startup and get a list of similar companies YCombinator has invested in. The app got attention on HackerNews and Twitter, resulting in 5,000+ visitors and 2,500+ submissions. If you haven’t had a...
Scaling Prisma applications with Neon read-only replicas
In this guide, we’ll cover what read replicas are, how they work in Neon, and how to leverage them to scale your Prisma applications. What is a read replica? A read replica is a read-only synchronized copy of your primary database. It offloads read traffic from your primary datab...
Build a Serverless API using AWS Lambda, CDK, and Neon
This guide will teach you how to build a serverless API using AWS Lambda, CDK (with TypeScript), and Neon. You will create a REST API with a single HTTP endpoint that returns a list of products from a Neon database. You can find the complete code for this guide on GitHub. Prerequ...