We just announced that pg_search is available on Neon, making it easier than ever to build fast, full text search experiences with Postgres. To demonstrate its performance, we forked Vercel’s Book Inventory template and replaced the AI powered search with native PostgreSQL full t...

Testing applications with Postgres presents a common challenge how do you provide each developer and CI pipeline with isolated, consistent databases to test against? Docker Compose has emerged as the standard solution, offering containerized Postgres instances that can be spun up...

Imagine you’re running a multi terabyte production database in Neon when you accidentally drop a critical table. Ouch. You notice the mistake a few minutes later, during which your high ingestion workload continues pumping new data into the database. How can you recover that drop...

SQLite is genuinely an incredible piece of technology. Instead of having a list of which companies used the database, the SQLite site simply tells you its on every Android phone, every iPhone, in every browser, in every Mac, in every Windows machine. “Billions and billions of cop...

Sometimes you need a Postgres database right now, and you’d like to have it without setting up containers, deploying infra, or creating an account anywhere. Maybe you’re following a tutorial online or testing a quick idea. Enter Instagres—a tool that lets you spin up a fully func...

Mocks for databases are extremely brittle and complicated. – javcasas Mocks in general are rarely worth it, the DB ones 10x so. – pdimitar Was dealing with mocking voodoo garbage this morning as a result of fixing a bug. What a horrible mess just to claim a few lines of “test cov...