edgedb-examples VS neon

Create a docs folder in the root of the project. Here we will place our Markdown documentation files. You can grab the files we use from the example project’s GitHub repo or add your own. (If you use your own, you may also want to adjust the system message we send to OpenAI later.)

EdgeDB employee here. Regarding tech stacks, we're seeing the most adoption in the JS/TypeScript ecosystem, especially Next.js and Remix users. That's followed by Python then Go. We've been prioritizing Deno and will be working in the near future to make our query builder Deno-compatible as well. You can see an (very simplistic) example project showing how to use EdgeDB in a Deno Fresh app: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-examples/tree/main/deno-fresh

We're still working out the kinks, but some form of this will definitely be possible.

You can already hack this by defining access policies and writing an EdgeQL proxy server that authenticates incoming requests, sets the appropriate global, and forwards the query to the database. There's a Python/Flask implementation of this pattern here[0].

We also have a JavaScript example app demonstrating access policies to simplify authorization logic using Next.js/getServerSideProps[1] and a user management platform you may have heard of called Clerk[2] :)

[0] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-examples/tree/main/flask-pr...

[1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-examples/blob/main/nextjs-a...

[2] https://clerk.dev/

If you're reading this you probably got a really steep bill from Neon after finding yourself on their "Scale" plan. If you do want to stay with Neon but avoid surprise bills then go to the Plans page and choose what you actually want.

Such is the case with Neon, a serverless Postgres service, that went generally available on April 15. Congrats Nikita Shamgunov and team on the launch. When I saw the announcement, I knew I had to try it out for myself and report back with my findings.

I want to use this as a chance to bring attention to a GitHub issue that I think would help reduce friction for Neon:

https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4989

If the Neon driver were to allow us to easily pass in a localhost connection, the development and test experience would be easier. Perhaps Neon could swap to something like this internally: https://github.com/porsager/postgres.

Having run a local dev environment connected to Neon and tests connected to Neon got in our way of adoption. We'd prefer to develop and run tests against a regular Postgres localhost database.

To the PMs of Neon, put yourself in the shoes of a new developer thinking of giving Neon a try. What changes will I have to make to my code and my development workflow?

Neon is an open source and cloud-native serverless database platform that focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It supports Postgres databases and offers built-in features like bottomless storage, autoscaling, and branching.

For MySQL, we've got PlanetScale, and for PostgreSQL, there's Neon.

8. https://neon.tech/As you might know not one tool fits all, I still have strong preferences for the following. It helps me get going faster and get things done right first time and helps in ease of maintenance.

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Migrated away when they removed the free tier, ended up using https://neon.tech/

Cool! At Neon[0], I work full time on our custom postgres proxy[1]. It's a very nice protocol to work with, although our usecase is quite a bit more complex compared to the ideas presented in the post.

Neon databases scale to zero, so the proxy needs to spin up databases on the fly. The proxy doesn't do that but it knows if the databases is running and asks our control plane to schedule it if it isn't. It's a fun service to maintain.

The biggest pain is error handling. Postgres is really bad for error messages and codes. The only available code we can use is usually protocol violation...

[0]: https://neon.tech/

Neon - PostgreSQL