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clarkbw

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About clarkbw

VP of Product @ Neon

bryan [at] neon [dot] tech

https://twitter.com/clarkbw | https://github.com/clarkbw/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45379858

    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…

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    Comment #44880667

    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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    Comment #43928032

    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…

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    Comment #43925900

    It is! And we plan to have 18 out as quickly as we did 17; on the day of release.

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    Comment #43270259

    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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    Comment #43188028

    (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 ge…

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    Comment #42322055

    (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…

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    Comment #41662767

    (neon employee) and Neon will be available on Azure very soon ( https://neon.tech/blog/neon-is-coming-to-azure )

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    Comment #41662118

    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 …

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    Comment #41659943

    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 yo…

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    Comment #41659790

    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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    Comment #40289891

    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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    Comment #40286622

    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 …

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    Comment #40046296

    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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    Comment #40042132

    (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 data…

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    Comment #40041739

    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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    Comment #40041696

    Congrats to the Supabase team! You've all done some impressive work to be proud of.

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    Comment #40041635

    TY, fixed. Neon does have a public Discord https://discord.gg/92vNTzKDGp

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    Comment #40041506

    Thank you! Can you tell me more about the stack you're using? [pure curiosity] (neon product)

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    Comment #40041447

    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. (ne…