AIApr 24, 2025Treat AI Like a Senior Dev, Not a Junior OneMost developers approach AI coding with the wrong mental model. The tendency, exacerbated by the vibe coding trend, is to let AI take the wheel. “Build me a UI using Tailwind that lets users see their account info” is an example initial request, followed by more and more short (a...Andrew Tate
AIApr 23, 2025State of AI 2025: How Developers Are Adopting AI Coding ToolsThe first ever State of AI 2025 survey polled thousands of developers to see how AI tools fit into real workflows, from brainstorming features to debugging in production. The survey ran from Feb March 2025 and collected over 4,000 responses from developers around the world. Organ...Carlota Soto
AIApr 21, 2025Prompt Engineering as a Developer DisciplineAI is here. That might seem like a trite comment, but almost a quarter of developers still see AI as something they don’t plan to use But ‘using AI’ doesn’t necessarily mean vibe coding your application into oblivion. Using AI as a developer means two things Understanding that AI...Andrew Tate
ChangelogApr 18, 2025New default project setup, Neon MCP Server with Zed, and moreNew default project setup. New Neon projects now start with a better out of the box setup to support your dev workflow. Instead of a single main branch, you'll now get A production branch (the default), designed for your production workload. It’s configured with a larger compute ...
EngineeringApr 15, 2025Modern Startup Stack Architecture on AzureWhen you’re building a startup, you move fast. You want to test ideas quickly, keep costs low, and be ready to change directions anytime. That’s why the tech stack you choose early on matters a lot. What works for big companies often doesn’t fit early stage startups. If your prod...Bobur Umurzokov
GuidesApr 15, 2025Using Postgres as a Key-Value Store with hstore and JSONBA step-by-step guide describing how to use hstore and JSONB for storing key-value pairs in PostgresValeri Karpov
AIApr 11, 2025Bringing MCP to the CloudWe recently released Neon’s remote MCP server. In this post, we’ll dive deep into how we implemented Neon’s remote MCP server. We’ll explore using Server Sent Events (SSE) for communication and integrating OAuth 2.1 for authentication. So let’s dive in. Note If you’d rather watch...Shridhar Deshmukh,Raouf Chebri
PostgresApr 11, 2025The True Cost of Slow Postgres RestoresWhen a Postgres failure happens, the time it takes to recover can mean the difference between a relatively minor hiccup and a major business crisis. We regularly hear anecdotes from our customers on this topic, but we also wanted to gather some data—so we surveyed 50 developers m...Carlota Soto