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Neon is an awesome serverless Postgres: https://neon.tech/
Till the time they are also bought and "sunsetted." That's the problem with all these shiny startups.
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Till the time they are also bought and "sunsetted." That's the problem with all these shiny startups.
Neon at least has open-sourced their core offering, which provides a migration path for folks who make bigger bets on their platform. So yeah, there's every possibility they'll go away at some point, but unlike a lot of SaaS offerings, it's all Postgres over the wire and under the hood, so you have plenty of migration options (OSS, another managed Postgres vendor, Aurora, Cloud SQL, etc.)
well i for one am very happy i never found out about bit.io, which looks amazing and is something i would have used instead of fly.io unmanaged postgres.
Bit io is awesome. It just works. I mean so does elephant but bitio has more storage. I never got very far with my learning and never did tadvanced db concepts like cross apply though so it was just simple entities and tables but it worked just fine and the best part, no credit card required on file.
Fly sounds nice but I don't feel so good about having to give them my credit card number...
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> Some Helm charts: https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts For the record though, they're not enough to run neon today[0] - this has been a "problem" since neon was announced here[1]. [0]: https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts/issues/35#issue-... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31540691
Yes, you'd have to do some own work to set up a direct competitor from the provided pieces. They have published a new piece which is how they vertically autoscale Postgres in Kubernetes: https://github.com/neondatabase/autoscaling
Autoscaling with live VM migrations is quite cool. Here is a blog post on it: https://neon.tech/blog/scaling-serverless-postgres
And yes, the code is open feel free to use it!
Are there alternatives to the database service with similar API or is it leaving a gap in the market?
I don't know about serverless, but it's hard to beat Crunchydata for PostgreSQL these days. They're my goto.
How was bit.io different from say supabase
It's an actual database.
I haven't heard of either of those companies. I don't even fully understand what Databricks does. But it's clear that they have no problem shutting down a production database offering with 30 days notice, and have the gall to title this action "Investing in the Developer Experience". If this doesn't send a message that you shouldn't trust them with anything important, I don't know what would.
> what Databricks does It's an ancient African word that means "I am because I can't install Apache Spark".
If you have the money, having a managed Spark instance with a bunch of added features can be a big win for some. There is a lot that goes into Spark maintenance.
I haven't heard of either of those companies. I don't even fully understand what Databricks does. But it's clear that they have no problem shutting down a production database offering with 30 days notice, and have the gall to title this action "Investing in the Developer Experience". If this doesn't send a message that you shouldn't trust them with anything important, I don't know what would.
> But it's clear that they have no problem shutting down a production database offering with 30 days notice Maybe there is no production db left from paying customers?
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It's an actual database.
Supabase is also Postgres-based. https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/overview