MCPs are powerful abstractions, but that power also means risk. A misconfigured or overly permissive MCP server can expose sensitive data, execute unintended actions, and simply ruin your day. We maintain an MCP server at Neon, but we want you to use it safely. Here’s a quick checksheet with advice we’ve gathered from experience: Keep […]
“Using Neon with Neon Auth just made everything simpler. Our database and auth live in the same place, and it’s the kind of backend you forget it exists. That’s exactly how it should be” Gabriel Tumlos, Founder of Daisy Daisy is a generative media studio building tools that make creativity instant. Their main app lets […]
Good news for Neon users on Vercel. We’ve shipped a few highly requested updates to the integration, plus a round of behind-the-scenes reliability and observability upgrades. Automatic Branch Cleanup Until now, Vercel-managed projects didn’t automatically clean up their database branches after preview deployments expired, leaving developers with long lists of inactive branches to remove manually. […]
If you’ve got real data, you’ve got a real problem. And that problem has a name – PII. Suppose your production database contains names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. In fintech, you might also have credit card numbers and transaction histories. In healthtech, medical records. In edtech, student data. To comply with data regulations and […]
You’re already using Neon, so chances are you’ve got valuable application data sitting in your Postgres database that reflects how people interact with your product. This data can tell you a lot about your customers and help guide product decisions, whether you’re an engineer, a founder, or a product manager. In this post (and the […]
For anyone building apps with AI, iteration is constant: you try different prompts, tweak the logic, and regenerate code until it finally works. At Dyad, a free, local, open-source AI app builder, this cycle is part of every user’s experience. From the start, Dyad made it easy to roll back code changes when something broke, […]
Branching lets developers spin up isolated environments that perfectly mirror production in a single click or API call. This is a major upgrade for developer experience: teams can skip the tedious work of keeping databases in sync and focus on shipping code. But until now, there’s been one limitation. If your production data includes sensitive […]
Neon’s snapshots feature is now available to all users (in Beta), and you can finally schedule them automatically. You can make snapshots daily, weekly, or monthly from the Backup & Restore page in the Neon Console. Snapshots are built on Neon’s copy-on-write architecture: they capture the exact state of your database at a point in […]
We’ve built a new way to connect your app to Neon right from Cursor. You can now run a single command to set up your Neon project, configure the MCP server, and enable the Neon integration: With this one command, Cursor gains full Neon project context: connection details, schema, and best practices – so you […]
Agents aren’t just LLMs; they’re distributed systems that write and execute real code. The moment you give an AI the ability to run SQL migrations, you’ve entered the world of DevOps. You’ve probably seen plenty of full-stack agent demos at this point, starting with a prompt like “build me a task tracker,” and seconds later, […]
Databases are often one of the biggest infrastructure expenses for any company. From day one, Neon’s mission has been to make databases radically more efficient through separation of storage and compute, allowing instant autoscaling and better unit economics. Now, with Neon running on Databricks’ global infrastructure, we’ve taken another major step forward: compute on Neon is […]
Once upon a pipeline… It was a nice summer evening, and our CI lived happily in a familiar castle: Hetzner. Bare-metal towers gave us everything we needed, with cheap CPU and RAM per unit, free internal traffic, and huge local disks to hoard caches like dragons guard gold. Our workflows were built to feast on […]
When Anthropic introduced Claude Skills, of course we tried it right away. This post walks through how we built, tested, and published our first set of Claude Skills for Neon, bundled into a plugin that includes four ready-to-use Skills and an MCP server integration. What’s a Claude Skill Anyway? Truth be told, there’s nothing particularly […]
More and more teams are using Neon to power vibe coding platforms, so we decided to build one too – not as our billion-dollar-vibe-coding-startup-side-gig but as a public, open-source template you can use as a starting point to learn how to build codegen agents yourself. We called the agent Aileen, and all the code lives […]
If you’re building open-source tools powered by Postgres, we want to help you grow. The Neon Open Source Program provides up to $5,000 in Neon credits each year, additional real cash payouts through GitHub Sponsorships, and promotional support to help your work reach millions of developers. Why We’re Doing This Open source is stronger when […]
When we started building xpander.ai’s agent platform, one of our core promises to enterprise customers was freedom of deployment. Some wanted to run agents entirely inside xpander cloud, using our managed infrastructure. Others needed to host agents on their own Kubernetes clusters – be it simply in a cloud VPC, private clouds, on-premise environments, edge […]
“For a small team, branching and scale-to-zero just make our lives markedly easier. We’re able to use real data without risky scripts touching production, and we don’t pay overnight for what we don’t use.” — Ryan McHenry, Head of Technology, Sharing Excess What is Sharing Excess? In the United States, nearly 40% of food goes […]
Managing dynamically changing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with constraints in Postgres enables robust tracking of relationships that evolve over time. At traconiq, this pattern is central to how we manage our vehicle fleet, where trucks and trailers attach and detach constantly, and where data can come from multiple systems with different levels of authority. We […]
Many of us at Neon use Claude Code almost every day: for debugging, for scaffolding new features, or keeping the flow going when context-switching between projects. I noticed pretty quickly that everyone seemed to have their own way of working with it though. For me, it clicked once I started experimenting with configuration, memory files, […]
Retool has long been the platform teams turn to for building internal software fast. At this year’s Retool Summit, they announced a big step forward – a new generation of AI-powered capabilities designed to take that speed to another level. They call it enterprise AppGen. Now, enterprises can use Retool to generate production-ready apps directly […]