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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

In the last few months, we've been working on making Neon storage faster.

Here are 7 improvements we shipped to boost performance under the hood 🧵

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Mikael Lirbank @lirbank.com · Sep 9

🚀 My guest post for the Neon blog just went live!

Want to make Postgres integration testing dead simple? Read on:
neon.com/blog/neon-te...

Big thanks to @andrelandgraf.com, Carlota Soto and Neon for the support!

Neon Testing: a Vitest Library for Your Integration Tests - Neon

Try Neon Testing, an open-source utility for Vitest that turns Neon branches into disposable test environments.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 19

We're excited to sponsor Sync Conf 2025! Join us in SF on Nov 12th!

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

We wrote up more about TanStack DB with ElectricSQL here: neon.com/blog/tanstac...

TanStack DB with Sync - the future of real-time UI - Neon

Learn how to achieve end-to-end reactivity and optimistic UI updates with Electric SQL, TanStack DB, and Postgres.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

TanStack DB adds optimistic updates on top, making your UIs feel snappy, not just for GET requests, but also when mutating data from the UI.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

ElectricSQL moves state synchronization into a dedicated service, greatly simplifying backend complexity. Instead of managing WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, or polling connections yourself, the ElectricSQL server handles the client updates for you.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

Whenever an agent, background task, or webhook function mutates the database, the changes instantly propagate to all connected client devices, and the associated UIs update in real time.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

This is fantastic not only for multiplayer or multi-device flows, but also when working with background AI agents and third-party services like Stripe triggering webhooks.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

It's magical when you update a row in your db and connected UIs instantly update. Real-time UI isn’t a new concept, but sync engines like ElectricSQL turn Postgres into the source of truth for the sync, simplifying the mental model needed to build reactive updates - just write to the database!

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

TanStack DB with Sync provides an exciting new way to add end-to-end reactivity to your web applications, including optimistic UI updates. 🧵

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

Build Open Source with Postgres. Neon is proud to be part of
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Vercel @vercel.com · Jul 15

We've added nearly $30,000 in credits to Vercel's Open Source Program.

Thanks to generous partner companies, the new OSS Starter Pack adds access to tools that help you build, maintain, and grow your project.

Let's create a more sustainable web, together.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

These are systems-level changes that make a real difference, although we still have work to do.

Read the full engineering writeup here: neon.com/blog/recent-...

Recent Storage Performance Improvements at Neon - Neon

Over the past several months, we’ve been focused on making the Neon storage system faster - here's a recap of recent improvements.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

7/ Better sharding policy

We now shard earlier and more gradually: 4 shards at 16 GB, 16 at 2 TB. This improved ingest performance by 17.5% for mid-size tenants.

More info on sharding: neon.com/blog/how-we-...

How we scale an open source, multi-tenant storage engine for Postgres written in Rust - Neon

We separated storage and compute with the vision of scaling Postgres in the cloud. The compute part runs on VMs and pods, autoscales on-demand and streams Postgres Write-Ahead-Log (WAL) records to the...

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

6/ Parallel S3 uploads

Uploads no longer block layer writes. Upload throughput doubled, and ingest time in our benchmarks dropped.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

5/ Smarter compaction

We now prioritize L0 compaction to avoid read amplification during ingestion. This dropped p99 read amplification by >50%.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

4/ Scan prefetching

Instead of fetching one page at a time, Pageservers now prefetch up to 100. In our benchmarks, schema finalization dropped from 10h to 2.5h.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

3/ Faster disk writes

Safekeepers now use sparse files and fewer flushes. WAL write throughput improved by 230%.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

2/ WAL compression

WAL is now compressed with Zstd before it’s sent to Pageservers. This cut Safekeeper → Pageserver bandwidth by ~70%.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

1/ Sharded ingest

We stopped broadcasting WAL to all shards and now route writes only where they’re needed. Less network traffic, lower CPU, and ~2× faster ingestion for large tenants.

Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Jul 15

In the last few months, we've been working on making Neon storage faster.

Here are 7 improvements we shipped to boost performance under the hood 🧵

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · May 28

Interesting to see @neon.tech having dedicated docs for integrating with AI tooling, including context prompts for how to leverage their stack neon.tech/docs/ai/ai-a...

Ship faster with AI tools - Neon Docs

Neon provides several ways to integrate with AI tools and agents, from natural language database control to autonomous agent frameworks. Choose the tools that fit your workflow. Manage databases with ...

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Atila @atila.io · Jun 30

one-click @neon.com MCP server install straight from the docs 👉 neon.com/docs/ai/neon...

I haven't been hoarding MCPs like most folks in this platform, but if this pattern catches up, I might end up starting to

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Neon MCP Server - Neon Docs

The Neon MCP Server is an open source tool that lets you interact with your Neon Postgres databases in natural language. Imagine you want to create a new database. Instead of using the Neon Console or...

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · May 30

Generate a CMS and admin panel with a Notion-style editor, file uploads, and more - straight from your Postgres schema. getflashboard.com made it happen.

Read how to use Flashboard with Neon: neon.com/blog/generat...

Generate a CMS based on your Neon Postgres schema - Neon

Flashboard is an instant CMS for your Postgres database. Connect your Neon database and get a full admin panel with a Notion-style editor, file uploads, and more - no setup required.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · May 30

Neon is just getting started. We're now neon.com!

Neon Serverless Postgres — Ship faster

The database you love, on a serverless platform designed to help you build reliable and scalable applications faster.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · May 23

"Your API is not an MCP." - Learn from David Gomes why designing your MCP toolkit takes more than just exposing an API.

David leads the development of Neon's MCP server and shared key lessons at Microsoft Build 2025. Watch the talk here: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

Your API is not an MCP

A lot of companies have jumped on the MCP bandwagon by quickly auto-generating their MCP servers from their APIs. This isn’t right as MCP servers are made to be consumed by LLMs and not by humans. Joi...

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Mar 18

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

Search over 50 million records using pg_search and Neon!

Editions Collection — Postgres with pg_search

View 53 million editions from Open Library.

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