neon VS sidekiq

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

Here's some info if you're considering Render. Node docs, and you might also be interested in connecting to MongoDB Atlas. Or you can deploy an instance of MongoDB yourself.

Django is fun! Not sure how helpful this might be, but I work at Render and we have a tutorial on deploying Django as well as an in-depth walk-through for using Django with Saleor for e-commerce. Looking at those might give you some good context and example structures to work with. Good luck!

Ok so i m trying to deploy my app on render.com but i am getting the following error:

- https://render.com/

Render

Cloud Application Hosting for Developers | Render

I understand why you might want to find a free solution, but I wanted to share that Render (where I work) has managed Postgres. You can use it for free for 90 days before deciding if you want to upgrade to a paid plan. I'd recommend a managed instance for a production environment.

I've tried to deploy to render.com on free tier, but it seems that each deploy resets the db.sqlite3 file, and I'd need it to persist.

Not sure if cpanel has this capability but railway.app, render.com, cleavr + aws or digital ocean droplet, coolify(open source) has the capability to set this up for you automatically. If you want to self host ssr manually, you'll need a aws ec2, digital ocean droplet, vultr server or linode server, then install nginx and nodejs, then setup your nuxt server.

Recently, I came to know that Heroku is going to stop supporting free services. I have almost all the projects running in Heroku and I never tried any services. Many people pointed out that Render is the best free alternative to the Heroku. So I am giving it a try by hosting a FastAPI application. Render seems to directly support python frameworks like Flask, Django etc as their documentation mentions them. But we should be able to host FastAPI app as it supports building any python app, we just need to change the starting command. Let's get into it without wasting another minute.