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Taking Postgres serverless (Interview)

Oct 14, 2022

Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon, dives into the world of serverless PostgreSQL, discussing its groundbreaking features. He explains how Neon’s separation of storage and compute leads to autoscaling and improved performance. The growth of Postgres as a leading database is highlighted, alongside insights on enhancing developer experience and tackling challenges in a serverless environment. Nikita also shares how to get invites for early access to this transformative platform, making it a lively discussion for tech enthusiasts!

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INSIGHT

Serverless Postgres Defined

Serverless Postgres prioritizes user experience and cost-effectiveness.
It simplifies database provisioning and offers consumption-based pricing.

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Serverless Postgres Adoption

Serverless database adoption is growing, driven by indie developers, dev environment needs, and larger organizations.
Postgres's popularity fuels this growth, as it's the only top-5 database increasing in popularity.

ANECDOTE

Permission to Mess Up

Adam Stacoviak recalls Tom Preston-Werner describing GitHub's early success as "permission to mess up."
Lowering friction and cost allows developers to explore and be creative.

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This week we’re talking about serverless Postgres! We’re joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0.

We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like, why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 databases only Postgres is growing (according to DB-Engines Ranking), we talk about how they separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage, we also talk about their focus on DX — where they’re getting it right and where they need to improve. Neon is invite only as of the recording and release of this episode, but near the end of the show Nikita shares a few ways to get an invite and early access.

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Nikita Shamgunov – Website, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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