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Neon Database Branching Saved Me 200 EUR Every Month
I run 14 Neon database branches per project for the price of one Postgres instance Neon copy-on-write branching clones a 12 GB database in under 1 second A GitHub Action spins up a fresh branch per pull request and tears...
Read articleThe 5 Postgres Extensions Every Shopify Backend Needs
pg_cron, pgvector, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw. The five extensions that turn generic Postgres into a Shopify-aware database.
The 8 Drizzle ORM Patterns I Use in Every Shopify Backend
Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects. Type-safe joins with the relations API and partial selects shaved 380ms...
The 7 Postgres Indexes That Took My API From 400ms to 40ms
I took one of my APIs from 400ms p95 to 40ms p95 by fixing 7 missing or wrong Postgres indexes. Most of my slow queries...
Building a Global Leaderboard with Neon Postgres and Zero Infrastructure Cost
Serverless Postgres for side projects. One npm install, one env var, global leaderboard running for free.