AIJul 29, 2025Three Ways to Use Neon for AIIt’s not only hype developers are working with AI every day – both using new AI powered tools and building their own. At Neon, we’re seeing Postgres widely used in three AI workflows powering vector based apps with pgvector, managing databases from AI assisted coding tools, and s...Carlota Soto
PostgresJul 25, 2025Postgres as Your Platform: Building Event-Driven Systems with Schema ChangesFor years, we’ve built elaborate scaffolding around our databases message queues to broadcast changes, cron jobs to sync schemas, webhooks to notify downstream systems. We needed this scaffolding because Postgres was “just” a database, a place to store rows and run queries. The r...Andrew Tate
ChangelogJul 25, 2025Bring your own email provider to Neon Auth, Neon AI Assistant now available for Free plan users, Devin can now use Neon's MCP Server, and moreBring your own email provider to Neon Auth. Neon Auth now supports sending emails for user invites, password resets, and notifications. Use our shared email server for development, then switch to your own provider when you're ready. Read more in the docs. Neon AI Assistant now av...
AIJul 24, 2025Devin Integrates with Neon Through New MCP MarketplaceCognition Lab’s AI software engineer, Devin, recently had its capabilities expanded by opening up an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server marketplace. With this, and Neon’s MCP server, you can now have Devin interact with your Neon database directly using a comprehensive set of to...Sam Harrison
PostgresJul 22, 2025Full-text searching the Web — on a single Postgres instance?Neon offers BM25 full text search directly within Postgres, via ParadeDB’s pg_search extension. You can read more about that in our announcement post, and in our comparison with Elasticsearch and with tsvector/tsquery in Postgres. The TL;DR is that supporting flexible full text s...George MacKerron
WorkflowsJul 21, 2025Neon Now Runs in VS CodeDevelopers love using Neon branches for a local development, due to the agility they provide (e.g. fast resets, isolated environments, and the ability to test without polluting production data). But using Neon branches still requires you to manage separate connection strings for ...Jeffrey Christoffersen
AIJul 18, 2025app.build Can Now Build Python Data AppsWhen we started working on app.build, we knew in the longer run we wanted to build a generic agent that could build apps with different “coding stacks”. However, for our first release and initial announcement, we could only build apps written with a single fixed stack React + Vit...Arseni Kravchenko,David Gomes,Pedro Figueiredo
ChangelogJul 18, 2025Develop with Neon in VS Code using Neon Local Connect, app.build adds Python support, and moreAccelerate development with the Neon Local Connect VS Code Extension. The Neon Local Connect VS Code Extension lets you develop with Neon using a familiar localhost connection string. Your app connects to localhost 5432 like a local Postgres instance, but the underlying Neon Loca...
