PostgresJun 09, 2025Managing Postgres Directly in VS CodeMicrosoft recently introduced a Visual Studio Code extension for Postgres database management. Similar in functionality to tools like PgAdmin or DBeaver, this extension embeds Postgres management directly into VSCode and comes fully integrated with GitHub Copilot, allowing it to ...Sam Harrison
EngineeringJun 06, 2025AWS CNI lessons from a Production OutageThis post is the last in a series discussing the Neon outages on 2025 05 16 and 2025 05 19 in our AWS us east 1 region. In this post, we cover the IP allocation failures that persisted through the majority of the disruption. For further details, read our top level Post Mortem her...Em Sharnoff,Mihai Bojin
ChangelogJun 06, 2025app.build, Neon Launchpad, Netlify DB, and moreapp.build. We're very happy to join the codegen community with app.build, our open source reference implementation for building codegen products on top of Neon. app.build is an agent that converts AI generated code snippets into complete, deployed applications. While LLMs handle ...
AIJun 04, 2025app.build: An Open-Source AI Agent That Builds Full-Stack AppsCode generation has been one of the most interesting use cases for LLMs. While the best models can generate decent code for isolated problems, there is a big gap between these code snippets and fully functional applications. Agent based solutions are better suited to create apps....David Gomes
Case StudiesJun 03, 2025How SMASHSEND Cut Costs by 95% by Moving from RDS to Neon“We moved from AWS RDS to Neon in literally hours, and the benefits have already been massive. Built in pooling fixed our background job failures, branching lets us test safely, and we cut our database bill from $1,500 to $70 a month” (Jorge Ferreiro, Founder of SMASHSEND) SMASHS...Carlota Soto
AIJun 02, 2025How We’re Using Cursor at NeonOur engineering team at Neon works across a large codebase written in TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python. We’ve been experimenting with Cursor as a tool to help us move faster – here’s our favorite workflows, and where we still find a few things missing. Our favorite Cursor workflo...David Gomes,John Spray,Atila Fassina
EngineeringMay 30, 2025Delayed Start Compute Operations – Triggering EventFor further details, read the top level Post Mortem. Summary The Neon Control Plane service is backed by a Postgres database. A scheduled job in the Control plane, Activity Monitor, is responsible for identifying Computes that are ready to be suspended. A Postgres query executed ...Mihai Bojin,Matt Sherman
CommunityMay 30, 2025Generate a CMS based on your Neon Postgres schemaYou created your app with Neon Postgres and love having all your data in it. Now you need to manage HTML content, images, and file uploads for your app’s data, such as products, events, profiles, etc. Your marketing team has to manage blog posts, landing pages, documentation, FAQ...Felipe Freitag
