clarkbw

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Electric(SQL) Joins Databricks(databricks.com)
7 points by clarkbw 1mo ago|0 comments
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Postgres 18 Is Out: Try It on Neon(neon.com)
7 points by clarkbw 1y ago|3 comments
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by clarkbw 1y ago
Neon has pg18 ready to use on the day it's released, just like last year. Sadly one of the most interesting features, Async I/O, is going to take some work at the file system level for us to support. For now all operations are sti
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by clarkbw 1y ago
I think this was actually trying to say, Neon prices were high. Because otherwise I agree it doesn't make sense. And Neon will be lowering prices dramatically... a day from now?
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Design Decisions Behind App.build, a Prompt-to-App Generator(neon.com)
2 points by clarkbw 1y ago|0 comments
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by clarkbw 1y ago
cold starts are 500ms on average, and that's only for the first call that wakes up the db from hibernation. people still seem to think that this latency happens for every call (see other threads here) but once the service has woken up
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by clarkbw 1y ago
It is! And we plan to have 18 out as quickly as we did 17; on the day of release.
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by clarkbw 2y ago
is it only the auth that's a problem? you could try stack auth or other oss auth providers out there.
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by clarkbw 2y ago
(neon employee) there isn't something like Vitess for Postgres yet but there needs to be. Migrations are painful in general and they become very painful at scale. i haven't used gel yet, i know it manages migrations but i don&#x27
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by clarkbw 2y ago
(neon employee) we have multi-region disaster recovery and replicas coming in 2025. Switch over time will be greater than this active-active system but the overall latency for Neon should be much less on a consistent basis.
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by clarkbw 2y ago
(neon employee) and Neon will be available on Azure very soon ( https://neon.tech/blog/neon-is-coming-to-azure )
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by clarkbw 2y ago
oh, i see I'm getting downvoted; this isn't a sales pitch for my "managed postgres platform". every year a new postgres release occurs and i want to try out some of the features i have to find a way to get it. usually no
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by clarkbw 2y ago
It's never available on homebrew the same day so we all worked hard to make it available the same day on Neon. If you want to try out the JSON_TABLE and MERGE RETURNING features you can spin up a free instance quickly. https:/&#x
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by clarkbw 2y ago
Some awesome quality-of-life improvements here as well. The random function now takes min, max parameters SELECT random(1, 10) AS random_number;
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Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment(techcrunch.com)
12 points by clarkbw 2y ago|3 comments
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by clarkbw 2y ago
Agreed! A common ORM pitfall is column rename which often doesn't get implemented as a rename as much as it does a DROP and ADD which will affect the data in a surprising way :-D
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by clarkbw 2y ago
My tests running ALTER varied from ~20 seconds to ~1 min for the changes. > Current CI/CD practices often make it very easy for software developers to commit and roll out database migrations to a production environment, only to find
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How not to change PostgreSQL column type(notso.boringsql.com)
98 points by clarkbw 2y ago|29 comments
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by clarkbw 2y ago
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by clarkbw 2y ago
Yes, we have great APIs ( https://neon.tech/docs/reference/api-reference ) and a Terraform provider ( https://registry.terraform.io/providers/terraform-community-... )
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by clarkbw 2y ago
(neon product) hey all, i've only been with neon for a very short time but i'm super excited to be here because i believe neon can deliver an amazing developer experience that databases have been lacking. while we are simply postg
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by clarkbw 2y ago
i'd love to learn more about what you're doing! if you haven't already, please send a message. definitely want to hear lessons learned with your k8s operator.
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by clarkbw 2y ago
Congrats to the Supabase team! You've all done some impressive work to be proud of.
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by clarkbw 2y ago
TY, fixed. Neon does have a public Discord https://discord.gg/92vNTzKDGp
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by clarkbw 2y ago
Thank you! Can you tell me more about the stack you're using? [pure curiosity] (neon product)
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by clarkbw 2y ago
woof, that does not sound good. Can you say more about how you were connecting? What was slow / gitchy and laggy? Feel free to reach to over DM to me with your project details. (neon empl)
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by clarkbw 5y ago
Product Manager here. This is about customer obsession, relentlessly following the needs of our audience. I know the engineers are always complaining that without vegetables we'll create significant tech debt but there's no time f
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by clarkbw 5y ago
Yes, we use EBS SSD on the backend so we can scale up storage separately from the instance. Our Cloud performance metrics are based on this backend so the short answer is no it doesn't constrain perf. The constraint I see right now is
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by clarkbw 5y ago
For the DBaaS services the problem is more of simplicity and developer experience; they are more of a transparent box which can make things more complicated than necessary. You should be able to have a clear paved path for an excellent gene
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by clarkbw 5y ago
As an ex-pat what bothers me most is the lack of representation, I'd keep paying taxes if we actually had some virtual state. Citizens abroad are essentially gerrymandered by their last state of residence meaning there is no useful re

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