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Neon

Neon is a serverless Postgres database platform offering autoscaling and branching, acquired by Databricks in 2024.

Known aliases

  • neon.com
  • Neon Postgres
  • Neon PostgreSQL
  • Neon Tech
  • neon.tech

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Misconfigured Postgres row-level security returns zero rows or every tenant's rows without an error

Postgres row-level security on a tenant_id column is the right default for most B2B SaaS apps, a dev.to guide argues, at two statements and a policy per table. Its warning is that a policy can look secure in a migration diff and still let one tenant reach another's data.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

Drizzle-kit drafted a DROP TABLE for a live table after a developer's three schema copies drifted apart

Drizzle-kit generated a DROP TABLE ... CASCADE for a table still in production when a developer asked it for two new tables. The developer traces it to schema.ts, drizzle-kit's snapshot and the live database each describing a different schema.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
productConfirmed3 publishers

Neon pledges to release its SCP Foundation film under the wiki's ShareAlike license

Neon pledged to release its 2027 SCP Foundation film under CC BY-SA after contacting the wiki's admins first. A24 did neither, and so far the license has moved one studio through public pressure, with a promise that can only be checked at release.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence75
Adoption15
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher

Checking membership inside Postgres policies closes a 15.5-minute revocation gap in a no-backend app

Row-level security in a no-backend Neon app refused 27 of 27 tenant attacks, yet a removed member read on for 928 seconds. A membership check in the policies closed that gap at a cost of about 5 ms on function calls.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

A keep-alive cron burned a month of Render free hours in ten days

A cron built to defeat Render's 15-minute spin-down spent the workspace's shared machine-hour budget in about ten days, and the suspension that followed took production and staging down together.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption18
Hype gap+8
Incentives55
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Databricks raises Lakebase's 1 GB shared buffers cap to most of the machine's memory

Hot pages on large fixed-size Lakebase computes now sit in Postgres shared buffers backed by huge pages instead of falling through to the local file cache, and Databricks measures up to about 2x throughput.

Publishers:databricks.com neon.tech

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+15
Incentives85
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

A five-day QStash hold outlives the signature on its own webhook

A social-media scheduler traced silently dead posts to a delivery JWT that QStash mints at enqueue time, and rebuilt dispatch so no message waits in the queue longer than its own signature stays valid.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption17
Hype gap−6
Incentives34
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

A tenant-installable PostGIS extension carried the same out-of-bounds bug onto Lakebase and Neon

Databricks says an ordinary customer role could reach the unchecked array index. The repair went upstream into the open-source extension rather than into either fleet. That is the only version that helps anyone else.

Publishers:databricks.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption34
Hype gap−14
Incentives78
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Databricks trades Postgres instance sizing for a pair of autoscaling limits

The compute node owns no durable state, so it can resize in place, and Neon puts the average production database at 32,016 size changes a month, a figure that describes its fleet's variance more than it predicts yours.

Publishers:databricks.com neon.tech

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption24
Hype gap+18
Incentives88
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Agents push one CRM account from 5GB to 40GB in thirty days

Storage pricing built for humans clicking a user interface is now metering machine writes at volumes nobody budgeted for. The platforms have started policing which vendor's agent gets to hold the record.

Publishers:saastr.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption42
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Per-developer environments hit their ceiling the day one engineer ran five agents

Platform teams planned capacity by headcount. If tenancy demand now scales with changes in flight, a namespace per developer is oversubscribed on arrival.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption27
Hype gap+28
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence36
buildOne report1 publisher

Prisma v7 stops seeding for you, and the pooled URL will not finish the job

A dev.to walkthrough flags two upgrade traps: migrate dev no longer runs your seed script, and seeding through the pooled endpoint breaks long transactions and prepared statements.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives82
Confidence30