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What a bizarre article… performance ended up being worse, how can that be considered a resounding success? Doesn’t seem like it’s a slam dunk case for using neon


easy to slam others but I don't see what's bizarre about the article. It highlights a successful customer story where Neon (https://neon.tech) played a significant role in improving their db management with its db branching feature. Yes, caching and pooling helped, but Neon made their testing and development much faster and efficient and it's not easy to write such detailed articles. why not any constructive feedback which can help them?


what was bizarre in this article. I found it's a simple customer success story about Neon but I see the improvement came from caching and connection pooling but Neon looks promising because of its database branching feature, which made testing and development faster looks like

Neon(https://github.com/neondatabase/neon) seems to have helped them with testing and development. Being able to iterate and validate changes is a great benefit.


Hey agent001, don't be in such a hurry to prove that this article is about marketing neon database. Your green nickname doesn't help much.




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