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CEO @neondatabase

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

Formula for an infrastructure startup success: - Find a 10x architectural advantage in cost and speed in a large category. - Build a freakishly good engineering team to implement the architecture in a narrow but deep product. - Relentlessly drive user experience.

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Every company should have access to an LLM that is tuned on ALL the enterprise data, connected to the data warehouse, and able to have a dialog about it. This time around it feels like a much bigger idea compared to attempts at enterprise search.

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Database architecture thread. Technical. There has been several startups building an operational relational databases focused on OLTP with a shared nothing architecture. @neondatabase is using a different approach - shared storage. What's the difference?

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I came to the US in 2005, spoke no English, and had $400 to my net worth. 18 years later I'm building a second tech company and still in awe of how it all came about. Greatest country on Earth! 🇺🇸🚀🫡

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Excited to announce our series B raise @neondatabase :

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Neon raises $46 Million to advance serverless PostgreSQL database for the AI era

Neon offers a serverless cloud service, providing the open-source PostgreSQL (also known as 'Postgres') relational database.

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Today we are announcing @neondatabase integration with @vercel previews which allows you to have a dedicated Postgres environment for every preview. 🧵

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Nikita Shamgunov

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We moved to next.js and @vercel at @neondatabase . The public repo is here:

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Neon Serverless Postgres — Ship faster

The database you love, on a serverless platform designed to help you build reliable and scalable applications faster.

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The economics of running database as a service and offering a free tier are brutal. Each database instance burns at least a VM or a set of VMs (for distributed or HA flavors) 👇

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2 months

Good job @nytimes :(. You keep telling the world high end engineering is boring.

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10 months

Some thoughts on Why anyone, why us, and why now @neondatabase raised 46M series B.

We Raised another $46M - What’s Next? - Neon

Neon raises $46 Million to advance serverless Postgres in the Cloud

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Nikita Shamgunov

3 years

Visiting Miami exceeded my expectations. A week of high quality meetings, great energy, and a ton of interesting people. Thank you @rabois @zsims @AriannaSimpson @cgarret_15 @marcbhargava @bunsen and many more for being tour guides. I'm coming back soon. #miamitech !

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Nikita Shamgunov

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I'm excited to announce that @neondatabase crossed 100,000 databases under management. Up from under 9,000 on January 1st this year. This growth wouldn't be possible without our partners @vercel , @Replit , @HasuraHQ and over a dozen more and counting. 1/N

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The next gen data platform at the infrastructure level may just be Postgres for everything OLTP and DuckDb for everything analytics. They will also integrate super well.

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1 year

Staging is dead. Long live previews!

Full-Stack Preview Deployments with Vercel and Neon - Neon

Learn how to use the Neon integration on Vercel to create a database branch for every Preview Deployment.

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@gokulr Check out “the upside of stress”. We believe stress is bad for us, but this is a myth. We are conflating different types of stress - the stress of running a company is good stress.

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People should not use EBS when building cloud native infrastructure services. Too expensive

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1 month

Postgres is the future. I want to extend my congratulations to @kiwicopple and supabase GA. Both @neondatabase and @supabase raised 100M+ and invest heavily into the Postgres ecosystem.

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Guillermo Rauch

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Postgres is the Linux of databases. An open 'kernel' that developers love, a strong ecosystem forms around, and from which distributions emerge. Congrats to two of them, @supabase and @neondatabase , on going GA today: ⁠ ⁠

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Nikita Shamgunov

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In an early stage startup you will personally know the founders, company strategy, fundraising, board members, what worked and what doesn’t and a ton of important company building details. If you want to build a mega career join early!

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2 years

Here is our take on database branching that is coming to @neondatabase . Creating a branch is an O(metadata) operation regardless of the database size. Here are some the use cases 1/n:

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Nikita Shamgunov

11 months

Will challenge any database founder in a ping pong match!

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@abizareyhan @PlanetScale @neondatabase Nope. We designed our system that it runs super efficiently at the low end. Scale to 0 and fast cold starts help.

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Beyond thrilled for the @neondatabase partnership with @vercel to deliver serverless Postgres

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Vercel

1 year

Introducing Vercel Storage ◆ Vercel Postgres: Serverless and Edge-ready SQL ◆ Vercel KV: Durable, global, serverless Redis ◆ Vercel Blob: Fast, simple file storage

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I owe my entrepreneurial career to @paulg and YC. I moved to California because I read Paul’s essays.

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YC has always had a lot of people implying that it sucks. notably this almost always comes from other investors (who are not thrilled about founders being more empowered and having such a good option)

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Neon is obsessed about the durability of your data. We store data in 6 copies two of which are on S3 1. 3 local copies of across 3 AZs for WAL in a Paxos cluster 2. In addition to that All WAL is stored on S3 (99.999999% durability) 3. 1 copy of each page is stored on the page

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Excited to have both @SnowflakeDB and @databricks participating in the @neondatabase series B round:

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Neon raises $46 Million to advance serverless PostgreSQL database for the AI era

Neon offers a serverless cloud service, providing the open-source PostgreSQL (also known as 'Postgres') relational database.

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

There are reasons to choose pgvector over @pinecone . The biggest is flexibility and ability to tinker with the database which is unparalleled. If you feel like pgvector is slow I'd love to see an example.

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Tuning vector recall while generating query embeddings in the database – PostgresML

How to effectively write and tune queries against large embedding collections with significant speed and quality advantages compared to OpenAI + Pinecone.

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@neondatabase is generally available #1 on hackernews

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This is why @neondatabase we didn't invest in BYOC (bring your own cloud) and went the Snowflake route: database is a URL. Multi-tenancy is a huge deal

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On the future of cloud services and BYOC — Jack Vanlightly

My job at Confluent involves a mixture of research, engineering and helping us figure out the best technical strategy to follow. BYOC is something I’ve been thinking about recently so I decided to...

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When you work on databases for a long time you get to appreciate storage technology. A lot.

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The industry is slowly realizing that @neondatabase has built an incredibly valuable piece of technology

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

GPT-3 can generate SQL!

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

3 months

4 @neondatabase engineers on this list

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Denis Magda

3 months

90% of New Code of PostgreSQL is Written by Just 50 People

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Every major database vendor will implement Vector data type and ANN search. Postgres is already there. What's going to be act 2 for both dedicated vector databases and general purpose ones?

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Nikita Shamgunov

5 months

Every new database engine requires a query optimizer. And it's just a TON of work. We couldn't get one off the shelf in the past - Apache Calcite was an interesting attempt, but it didn't translate to OLTP or native languages. Hopeful for this effort!

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Andrew Lamb

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Its happening! Database researchers are starting to use @ApacheArrow DataFusion (e.g. @CMUDB 's ). It is a good opportunity here I think for students to work with an industrial system designed to be open. Also, @rustlang

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Currently @neondatabase is #1 on HN

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1 year

Just hit 10K databases on the @neondatabase cloud. Up from 5K in mid November. Great start of 2023 and ton more innovation in the pipeline. Let's go! #postgres #database #dbaas #shipping #rustlang #2023 .

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Microsoft is incredibly dominant in devtools: GitHub, VSCode, typescript, npm, and 50% stake in OpenAI. But they don't have @Replit and that's where AI generated apps will end up living.

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Someone casually uploaded ~1Tb of data over the weekend into a @neondatabase project. No planning, no sizing. Database is just a url.

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We built a Postgres extension @neondatabase that is 20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding.

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20x faster than pgvector: introducing pg_embedding extension for vector search in Postgres and...

We’re excited to announce the release of our pg_embedding extension for Postgres and LangChain! The new pg_embedding extension brings 20x the speed for 99% accuracy to graph-based approximate nearest...

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Postgres is now the top developer choice ahead of MySQL. @neondatabase we debated if we should support both (like AWS Aurora), but then chose to focus just on Postgres. Serverless only, cloud only, and Postgres only.

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PostgreSQL now top developer choice ahead of MySQL, according to massive new survey • DEVCLASS

A survey of 90,000 developers shows that PostgreSQL is ahead of MySQL as the choice of database engine, […]

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

US and Europe should open the borders for the tech talent in Russia and Ukraine. This could be the largest talent migration comparable to exodus on 2M Jews in the 1990ies. What do you think?

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Excited to announce we renamed @neondatabase from Neon to 𝕏eon!

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Database should just be a url

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

Things that will be possible in a database platform when we apply AI and LLMs 1/n:

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

I’m finding myself at the very bottom of this picture :)

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@natfriedman Google took a generation of the best engineering talent, but hasn’t shipped anything in a decade. It’s about time

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Nikita Shamgunov

3 months

Postgres process per connection is super annoying and PgBouncer is a common solution. But it didn’t support prepared statements which made it super awkward as you need two connection strings and not one. The right thing was to fix PgBouncer which is exactly what we did.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres

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PgBouncer: The one with prepared statements We’re happy to announce Neon’s support for PgBouncer 1.22.0. This latest release increases query throughput by 15% to 250% and includes support for DEALLOCATE ALL and DISCARD ALL, as well as protocol-level prepared statements

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End to end tracing from app to database internals: - app ⁦ @vercel ⁩ - database ⁦ @neondatabase ⁩ - observability ⁦ @newrelic ⁩ - Postgres tracing plugin pg_tracing by ⁦ @datadoghq ⁩ Demo: cofounder of ⁦ @neondatabase ⁩ Heikki Linnakangas

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Nikita Shamgunov

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When building system software you get to build up a ton of intuition of how fast things should be. But adding two and two and running through a profiler is A+ level of competence.

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vx-underground

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The xz backdoor was initially caught by a software engineer at Microsoft. He noticed 500ms lag and thought something was suspicious. This is the Silver Back Gorilla of nerds. The internet final boss.

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Thank you @MenloVentures for leading our Series B! The photo had to be from @BarrysBootcamp :) .

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Why Menlo Invested in Neon

Serverless Postgres, separation of storage and compute and deep dev platform integration

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Nikita Shamgunov

6 months

How can you make a stateful legacy system serverless? @neondatabase example with Postgres. 👇

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Very excited to launch the second puzzle piece after separating storage for @neondatabase . Autoscaling with live VM migrations. All code is opensourced!

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Scaling serverless Postgres: How we implement autoscaling - Neon

We’re excited to announce the release of autoscaling in Feature-Preview! This feature allows your database to accommodate varying workloads and meet your application’s demand. In this blog post,...

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Nikita Shamgunov

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With @neondatabase now GA, the homepage needed a redesign to better showcase the platform's features and capabilities.

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A place where it would be super useful is database migrations. Stored procedures in legacy systems like Oracle, Sybase, IBM, and Microsoft are notoriously hard to move to anything modern and allow them to extort existing customer. This will allow moving all tier2 apps from

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Guillermo Rauch

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Amazing. A glimpse of how AI will revolutionize code migrations. (h/t @thomasglopes )

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Postgres is back to #1 DBMS of the year! Excited to ride the wave @neondatabase

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PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year @PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL

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How I learned to program. RIP Niklaus Wirth

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Cold starts just got hot @neondatabase

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Cold starts just got hot - Neon

tl;dr> Over the past few months, a bunch of efforts by the engineeringteam have greatly reduced our “cold start time” for compute resourcesfor idle computes that become active. This post explores the...

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Nikita Shamgunov

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@elitasson @BostonGlobe USSR was obsessed with math

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Sql Server is nosediving. Great product, but I think we are witnessing a generational change where younger people just don’t know it even exists

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Amazed by the tailwinds of the Postgres ecosystem we get here @neondatabase . Every data vendor is building vector functionality in response to change in the market. We just embed pgvector. Same for PostGIS, Postgres anonymizes for PII data, postgREST for rest APIs and more. We

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Excited to be an investor in the future of app development! @khoslaventures 🤝 @Replit

@Replit

Replit ⠕

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We raised a Series B extension of $97.4M at a $1.16B valuation, up from our 2021 Series B. We’ll use the funds to expand our cloud services and build our lead in AI for software creation. Our mission to empower a billion software developers is one step closer!

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I'm excited to launch a discord service today @neondatabase . Some believe that you should only use forums b/c it accumulates content vs it disappears on discord. But I think the world has moved on and expects much faster interaction with the community.

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Neon - Serverless Postgres

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You can read the full article on why we chose Discord as the platform for hosting our community.

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

Just crossed a 1000 new databases in 12 days. @neondatabase ❤️ @HasuraHQ

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Nikita Shamgunov

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There is a misconception we see pushed by other databases: "DBs that scale to zero aren't production-ready" - That's silly , scale to zero is great for everyone from indie hackers to massive platforms.

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Nikita Shamgunov

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We partner with companies who are just as obsessed with #devx as we are. Excited to provide @PostgreSQL to @Replit .

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Replit — PostgreSQL Database Preview Now Available On Replit

Databases and web apps go together like peanut butter and jelly. In a word, they're inseparable. And despite all the amazing innovations in NoSQL data stores, often a good old relational database is...

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Nikita Shamgunov

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1/ Reflecting on Neon’s GA announcement yesterday and the new releases today - We are just getting started During this past year, we’ve shipped major improvements to Neon internals and we’re now ready to support your mission-critical workloads. +700,000 databases are now

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Gm! ⁦ @neondatabase ⁩ developer days start tomorrow! #midjourney

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Here is a summary why people love Postgres over MySQL: - Full features and rock solid. MySQL is quite reliable too, but def not full featured - MySQL stopped innovating (b/c Oracle) - Extensions. Especially PostGIS and Timescale. Now pgvector - License. GPL vs Postgres (which is

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Excited to share the vision of @neondatabase with NYSE.

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NYSE 🏛

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Nikita Shamgunov, Founder + CEO of Neon, talks about the future of serverless database technology and how their Postgres solutions are revolutionizing data management and efficiency on #NYSEFloorTalk with @JudyKShaw @MadronaVentures #IA40 | @neondatabase | @nikitabase

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Scaling to zero doesn't matter much for a single db instance. But it matters hugely when you are managing a fleet. And every company has a fleet now - dev, test, staging and beyond: a preview database for every commit. That's what we delivered on with @neondatabase

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Postgres

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Who would have thought that enabling technology for this is separation of storage and compute.

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Danny Nemer

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I'm floored. With @neondatabase , I can choose any arbitrary point in history and just execute a query to see what the DB would have returned at that timestamp. It's instant. No need for backups, restoring, or history/audit tables. 🤯 🤯 🤯

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Super excited to announce @HasuraHQ partnership!

Introducing the Neon Hasura integration - Neon

Neon and Hasura have partnered to provide developers with instant GraphQL API with Serverless Postgres. Today we’re releasing the first milestone: a native integration that lets you create a Neon...

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Yes! @vercel is a high bar. We are working hard to get there across DX, design, and performance. We won't stop until we are there.

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The design of these is on par with @vercel 's tickets Great job @neondatabase Also: databases yay

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Postgres keeps driving share. The only top 5 database with an upwards trend: . Mongo and SQL Server are in trouble. Oracle and MySQL - melting ice cubes.

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The journey of becoming default cloud Postgres @neondatabase .

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The most successful systems are shared storage: Oracle RAC, SQL Server Hyperscale, and AWS Aurora. @neondatabase is shared storage which lets us be serverless. And shared nothing OLTP systems are destined to stay niche.

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Excited for our partnership with @prisma and the launch of Prisma read replicas

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Introducing the Read Replicas Extension for Prisma Client

Distribute read traffic across replicas using the new read replicas extension for Prisma Client.

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Proud of my @neondatabase co-founder Heikki and his contribution to pgvector. We did the full 180 after launching pg_embedding and went all in on pgvector. When community wins we win!

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Jonathan S. Katz

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The @pgvector 0.6.0 release is now available! There are many performance improvements to HNSW index building, including support for parallel builds. Lots of awesome work by @andrewkane and Heikki Linnakangas on this release. Changelog here:

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I just realized that I have been in the same room with @satyanadella multiple times, but have never seen @sundarpichai live. @satyanadella feels a ton more plugged in into the startup scene.

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Do you think eventual consistency is not a big deal?

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Nikita Shamgunov

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We’re excited to share that pgvector v0.5.0 is now available on Neon 📷This new version introduces: • HNSW index for faster retrieval • Distance functions are faster • Parallel builds for ivfflat Try it out today ↓

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Nikita Shamgunov

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Excited to onboard a 1000s user on @neondatabase serverless @PostgreSQL platform!

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Fucking San Francisco :(. I met Bob years ago and he left a great impression. Real technologist and a great human being. This is not fair and should not happen

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Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death | TechCrunch

Bob Lee, the Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. He was the former CTO of Square.

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

- Postgres is becoming a key part of the AI stack

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Powering next gen AI apps with Postgres — Neon

Scale your transformative LLM applications to millions of users with vector indexes and similarity search in Neon.

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Nikita Shamgunov

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It's coming

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@neondatabase

Neon - Serverless Postgres

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April 15th.

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

We are launching something tomorrow @neondatabase . Please tune in!

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Nikita Shamgunov

3 years

In Miami next week. Excited to see what @rabois and @FrancisSuarez have started. Also Barry's with @rabois !

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Nikita Shamgunov

11 months

People often measure database query latency within the same datacenter. But what really matters is end-to-end latency. We put a lot of work into delivering sub 10ms latencies to @neondatabase from the edge:

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Sub-10ms Postgres queries for Vercel Edge Functions - Neon

Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of our enhanced driver for your Postgres queries at the Edge. With this release, developers can observe a 40% reduction in query latencies from Vercel...

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Many of my friends and fellow founders are impacted by the SVB collapse. My heart is with everyone who has frozen wires and can't run payroll. Hope the SV ecosystem will find a solution this weekend.

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 months

⁦ @neondatabase ⁩

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 months

Stay strong! When you do great work the world takes a notice

@aarondfrancis

Aaron Francis

2 months

A few weeks ago, I got laid off. Here's what I'm doing next.

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

- a new blog post from Heikki on architecture decisions in @neondatabase . #PostgreSQL

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Architecture decisions in Neon - Neon

The idea behind Neon is to create a new serverless Postgres service with a modern cloud-native architecture. When building for the cloud it usually is a good idea to separate storage and compute. For...

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@nikitabase

Nikita Shamgunov

5 years

Recruit like your life depends on it. Because it does

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Nikita Shamgunov

10 months

Rereading how to do great work by @paulg . Some of the most intricate work @neondatabase is around VM orchestration, ultra fast cold starts, and client side latencies. It feels very strange to focus deeply on those for a database company, not on your classic query processing and

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

Weekly @neondatabase art drop for our fans

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Nikita Shamgunov

1 year

More techcrunch coverage for @vercel + @neondatabase partnership. Usage is climbing fast!

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Vercel brings new back-end tools to its front-end cloud | TechCrunch

Vercel expands its cloud with the launch of numerous back-end services and features including Redis and PostgreSQL databases.

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Nikita Shamgunov

2 years

@HarryStebbings Don't need to think more than 40ms on this one. @LM_Braswell !

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