PostgresJun 13, 2025Comparing Native Postgres, ElasticSearch, and pg_search for Full-Text SearchImplementing text search in Postgres is trivial. You can do it as simply as this But like most simple things in SQL, it’s only simple when your data is simple—when you hit anything approaching scale, the simple things become hard. Full text search is precisely one of these cases....Ben Hagan
WorkflowsJun 13, 2025Handling Protected Health Information Under HIPAA: Best Practices for DevelopersYou’re building a healthtech app. Maybe you’ve decided to take on the insane complexity of electronic health records, or maybe you’re building an app for doctors to communicate with patients, or perhaps you’re creating a platform for managing clinical trials. Whatever your specif...Andrew Tate
ChangelogJun 13, 2025app.build available via Homebrew, Neon MCP Server updates, and moreapp.build — now available via Homebrew. Last week, we introduced app.build, our open source reference implementation for building AI powered applications on top of Neon. Unlike LLMs that generate isolated snippets, app.build uses agent architecture to turn prompts into fully depl...
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
