https://neon.comRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 01:12:20 GMTEnsuring customer databases are always available is one of the most important things we do in Neon and Lakebase. We’ve designed the system with redundancy at every level, automatically failing over and recovering your database in the event of hardware or software failures. In a large-scale system, such unplanned failures are a statistical expectation, but […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/prewarminghttps://neon.com/blog/prewarmingFri, 27 Mar 2026 14:04:17 GMT<p>Ensuring customer databases are always available is one of the most important things we do in Neon and Lakebase. We&#8217;ve designed the system with redundancy at every level, automatically failing over and recovering your database in the event of hardware or software failures. In a large-scale system, such unplanned failures are a statistical expectation, but [&hellip;]</p> For most of 2025, AI coding agents got good at a specific thing: writing code. Give an agent a prompt, and it could scaffold an app, wire up an API, write migrations. But when the code was done, the agent stopped. Spinning up a real database, creating an account, getting credentials into the environment… that […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/neon-works-with-stripe-projects-for-agentic-provisioninghttps://neon.com/blog/neon-works-with-stripe-projects-for-agentic-provisioningThu, 26 Mar 2026 16:14:37 GMT<p>For most of 2025, AI coding agents got good at a specific thing: writing code. Give an agent a prompt, and it could scaffold an app, wire up an API, write migrations. But when the code was done, the agent stopped. Spinning up a real database, creating an account, getting credentials into the environment&#8230; that [&hellip;]</p> “I’m genuinely surprised by how well it handles that scale. You can create tons of databases and they’re available immediately. You can branch out immediately. All of those things make it really nice for agent-managed infra.” Iman Radjavi, Co-founder, Specific.dev What Specific builds Specific (YC F25) is a cloud platform designed for coding agents. With […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/how-specific-provisions-thousands-of-databases-for-coding-agents-using-neonhttps://neon.com/blog/how-specific-provisions-thousands-of-databases-for-coding-agents-using-neonWed, 18 Mar 2026 19:19:23 GMT<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m genuinely surprised by how well it handles that scale. You can create tons of databases and they&#8217;re available immediately. You can branch out immediately. All of those things make it really nice for agent-managed infra.&#8221; Iman Radjavi, Co-founder, Specific.dev What Specific builds Specific (YC F25) is a cloud platform designed for coding agents. With [&hellip;]</p> There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebieshttps://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebiesThu, 05 Mar 2026 16:32:34 GMT<p>There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, [&hellip;]</p> “The biggest strength of Neon is how it decouples storage and compute and makes them independently scalable. When an app isn’t being used, the compute node can be put in idle mode at extremely low cost, which lets us handle a wide range of scale and complexity without compromise.” (Nilesh Trivedi, co-founder and CTO at […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/inside-qwikbuild-neon-powered-architecturehttps://neon.com/blog/inside-qwikbuild-neon-powered-architectureThu, 26 Feb 2026 17:49:06 GMT<p>“The biggest strength of Neon is how it decouples storage and compute and makes them independently scalable. When an app isn’t being used, the compute node can be put in idle mode at extremely low cost, which lets us handle a wide range of scale and complexity without compromise.” (Nilesh Trivedi, co-founder and CTO at [&hellip;]</p> From the start, the team at Encore has been focused on solving a simple problem: shipping production infrastructure shouldn’t require a dedicated platform engineering team. They set out to make deploying real applications feel simple without abstracting away control; in Encore, devs can define infrastructure directly in Go or TypeScript, and the platform turns that […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/where-agents-meet-infrastructure-encore-leap-and-neonhttps://neon.com/blog/where-agents-meet-infrastructure-encore-leap-and-neonWed, 25 Feb 2026 19:45:21 GMT<p>From the start, the team at Encore has been focused on solving a simple problem: shipping production infrastructure shouldn’t require a dedicated platform engineering team. They set out to make deploying real applications feel simple without abstracting away control; in Encore, devs can define infrastructure directly in Go or TypeScript, and the platform turns that [&hellip;]</p> Every AI lab is shipping research agents. OpenAI’s Deep Research, Perplexity, and Gemini’s research mode. These products are not simple RAG pipelines. Recent papers like DeepResearcher and Step-DeepResearch formalize what makes them work: a recursive loop of planning, searching, learning, and reflecting, where the agent decides when to go deeper and when to stop. The […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/building-a-deep-research-agent-with-neon-and-durable-endpointshttps://neon.com/blog/building-a-deep-research-agent-with-neon-and-durable-endpointsTue, 24 Feb 2026 17:14:34 GMT<p>Every AI lab is shipping research agents. OpenAI&#8217;s Deep Research, Perplexity, and Gemini&#8217;s research mode. These products are not simple RAG pipelines. Recent papers like DeepResearcher and Step-DeepResearch formalize what makes them work: a recursive loop of planning, searching, learning, and reflecting, where the agent decides when to go deeper and when to stop. The [&hellip;]</p> Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin today from the Cursor Marketplace to give Cursor live access to your Neon organization along with the knowledge it needs to be […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/neon-is-a-cursor-pluginhttps://neon.com/blog/neon-is-a-cursor-pluginTue, 17 Feb 2026 18:58:33 GMT<p>Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin today from the Cursor Marketplace to give Cursor live access to your Neon organization along with the knowledge it needs to be [&hellip;]</p> View the Autoscaling Report here.

]]>https://neon.com/blog/autoscaling-report-2025https://neon.com/blog/autoscaling-report-2025Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:57:38 GMT<p>View the Autoscaling Report here.</p> A few weeks ago, Vercel released add-skill (now npx skills), a CLI for installing agent skills across different coding agents and editors like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. It solves a very real problem: each tool looks for agent skills in a different place, which makes setup repetitive and documentation painful to maintain. The […]

]]>https://neon.com/blog/add-mcphttps://neon.com/blog/add-mcpTue, 10 Feb 2026 19:47:14 GMT<p>A few weeks ago, Vercel released add-skill (now npx skills), a CLI for installing agent skills across different coding agents and editors like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. It solves a very real problem: each tool looks for agent skills in a different place, which makes setup repetitive and documentation painful to maintain. The [&hellip;]</p>