website-thomas-astro VS neon

Since Drizzle abstracts away the differences between Postgres & LibSQL behind the scenes, I didn't have to change much to my queries. This made the migration very easy. Having the type-safety of Drizzle, I could just do the changes and do a quick type-check to see if any TS errors popped up, if there weren't any, I was done. Now the migration's done, I don't have to worry about hitting the limits of the free tier anywhere soon, and the DX got even better, double win! If you want to see the changes I had to do to move from Vercel Postgres to Astro DB in code, you can check this compare. You'll see a lot of the changed files are from moving my pages/page-views route to a static route, and handling all the data fetching for it on the client side. This was mainly done to avoid seeing an empty page for too long while server rendering the dataset.

Full code can be found on GitHub, live data can be seen on my website.

Hope this was helpful! Source code can be found on my Github as always.

I must say I really enjoy working with Astro for writing Markdown/MDX, especially when they make it this easy! Source code can be found on Github. An example of a tag page can be found here.

Hopefully this helps other people wanting to use serverless/edge API functions in their Astro projects. Source code can be found here.

To make my code run locally too, I needed to change the DATABASE_URL environment variable to make it point directly to PlanetScale instead of going through Prisma Proxy. Go check it out on my blog, and add a comment ;-). Source code can be found on my Github.

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