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Neon doubles funding to $54M
Neon just completed our Series A-1 round, raising $30M to more than double our total funding to $54.3 million. This latest injection of capital means we’re ready to give developers the best Postgres experience in the cloud. How we’re capitalizing on this investment With this new...
Why does Neon use Paxos instead of Raft, and what’s the difference?
TLDR: Neon separates storage and compute, substituting the PostgreSQL persistency layer with a custom-made distributed storage written in Rust. Due to this separation, some nodes don’t have persistent disks. The original Raft paper works only with uniform nodes, but Paxos variant...
Announcing pg_tiktoken: A Postgres Extension for Fast BPE Tokenization
We’re excited to announce the release of the pg_tiktoken extension on Neon. This new Postgres extension provides fast and efficient tokenization using the BPE (Byte Pair Encoding) algorithm. pg_tiktoken is a wrapper around OpenAI’s tokenizer, known for its speed and performance i...
Measuring uptime for Neon’s multi-tenant architecture
In the past two months, we’ve had several incidents that affected different aspects of our service. We’ve been transparent about them, and we made sure that each major one included details on what happened, the size of the impact, and what we’re doing to prevent it from happening...
Making pricing more predictable
We created Neon with the idea of providing developers with a cloud-native Postgres that separates storage and compute to make the database more automated, more scalable, and more durable. After enrolling over half a million databases and nearly a year of listening to user feedbac...
What you get when you think of Postgres storage as a transaction journal
There are two ways to think about a relational database. The first is data-centric. Data is organized into tables with rows and columns, each representing a specific entity or concept. In this mental model of a database, the primary focus is on storing and retrieving data. This m...