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Electric retweeted
Thanks @andrelandgraf for the chat.
It’s pretty cool what we can do now we’re inside the database and working with @neondatabase’s storage system.
I’m very excited about this. Coming next to the Neon backend: realtime.
Sync is incredibly hard to get right - especially if the goal is to make it great to work with, support as many database query use cases as possible, and scale well.
Sync coming to Neon was probably obvious to many after our announcement that the Electric team is joining Databricks but we can finally announce it officially today!
The Electric team is building sync for Neon. I asked @thruflo about joining Databricks and their first few weeks at the company: neon.com/blog/electrifying-n…
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Electric retweeted
I’m very excited about this. Coming next to the Neon backend: realtime.
Sync is incredibly hard to get right - especially if the goal is to make it great to work with, support as many database query use cases as possible, and scale well.
Sync coming to Neon was probably obvious to many after our announcement that the Electric team is joining Databricks but we can finally announce it officially today!
The Electric team is building sync for Neon. I asked @thruflo about joining Databricks and their first few weeks at the company: neon.com/blog/electrifying-n…
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Electric retweeted
The @neondatabase team are all in London this week, and we're hosting a meet-up this evening.
Come join us to talk about, anything dev/ai, all the new features of Neon, along with maybe a sneak peek of something new.
luma.com/neoncom-0ce4
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Electric retweeted
Neon is building out the primitives to be your backend platform.
I’ve only been inside the tent for a few weeks but the people, engineering and product velocity I see around me is seriously impressive.
The Neon backend is GA. A complete set of primitives for apps and agents built around the database, with open standards, no lock-in, and branching-first by design.
Starting with: Lakebase Postgres, Object Storage, Functions, Managed Better Auth, and AI Gateway. More to come.
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Electric retweeted
The Neon backend is GA. A complete set of primitives for apps and agents built around the database, with open standards, no lock-in, and branching-first by design.
Starting with: Lakebase Postgres, Object Storage, Functions, Managed Better Auth, and AI Gateway. More to come.
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Electric retweeted
Introducing Durable Streams for Rivet Actors
Electric Cloud shuts down September 10. Rivet provides a graceful migration to open-source infra:
♾️ Bottomless storage (no 10 GB Durable Objects limit)
⚡ SSDs w/ S3-tiered storage
🌍 Multi-region edge network
🦀 Written in Rust
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Electric retweeted
We're launching Neon Labs, a space for Postgres tools that are still experimental but ready to test
The first two tools are for major-version upgrades: labs.neon.com
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Electric retweeted
This is unfortunate, but this is why we're making cloud storage, databases, etc all branchable and recoverable at @neondatabase and @databricks! Agentic development will need a new kind of cloud infra.
Bad news: Fable nuked my entire dev machine
Claude decided to test a sandbox it was building by running `rm -rf` on my home directory
The sandbox didn't work.
It's all gone
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Electric retweeted
New episode with @thruflo from @ElectricSQL on why agents are data not compute.
We recorded this at Heavybit DevGuild in May - way before Electric announced their acquisition by Neon/DataBricks - congrats James and team!
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This is a good post but it misses @ElectricSQL which we use and is remarkably attractive for a few reasons:
Bring your own Postgres and schema. No opinions about schema definition or orm - we use drizzle with it
Do mutations however you want, use your own API; clients update optimistically
No lock-in. UI speaks tanstack DB which lets you use any sync system or api you want, and the backend doesn’t know it exists
Self-hostable; it’s just a single container. Or use their cloud.
Team is fantastic and super responsive, bugs get patched very quickly
Sync engines are the new state management. If you haven't looked at Zero, Replicache, LiveStore, or Convex yet, you're about to.
The pitch: "real-time everywhere" without WebSocket boilerplate. Reactive DB queries that just update the UI when the underlying data changes. Optimistic writes with conflict resolution baked in.
Zero (Rocicorp) — SQL-shaped apps with 100k+ rows per user. Linear-style. Replaces TanStack Query + manual invalidation.
Replicache — mutation-heavy apps with conflict resolution. Notion-style. Client mutations first, server reconciles.
LiveStore — local-first + offline mandatory. SQLite in the browser. Note-taking, PWAs, anything you might use on a plane.
Convex — greenfield where you own the whole stack. Reactive DB + backend in one product.
The watch-out: schema lock-in, vendor-owned runtimes, and a push-model muscle your team hasn't built. Adopt one small feature to a sync engine first before betting the whole app.
In 2024 this pitch felt too good. In 2026 it's finally credible. Worth an afternoon of your time this quarter.
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Electric retweeted
Congrats @thruflo and the @ElectricSQL team on joining @databricks / @neondatabase today. You bet early that sync was a general primitive, and it turned out to be important not just for human collaboration but for agents too. Excited for this next part of your journey.⚡️
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Electric retweeted
Welcome to Databricks and @neondatabase, @ElectricSQL!
Excited to share that we've acquired ElectricSQL, the team behind PGlite. Agents need super fast Postgres and this team built an amazing WASM (WebAssembly) implementation of postgres that runs in your browser, but can sync back with Postgres instances asynchronously. Exactly what blazing fast AI agents today need. Excited to supercharge our 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬 offering with these capabilities.
databricks.com/blog/electric…
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Electric retweeted
Databricks is acquiring Electric, the startup behind the WASM Postgres project PGlite. It's a bet that AI agents need thousands of tiny, disposable databases and a sync engine to hold them together. thenewstack.io/databricks-el…
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Electric retweeted
this is like watching your friends get married but for devtools nerds
congrats @kylemathews @thruflo and @nikitabase!
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Electric retweeted
This is huge! @ElectricSQL is joining @neondatabase
I learned firsthand at Materialize the surprising amount of complexity behind realtime. Electric team is very good.
PGlite + real-time sync have emerged as key primitives in an era where millions of apps are deployed by agents.
We’re excited to announce @ElectricSQL is joining team Neon at Databricks to build the world's most advanced Postgres backend platform.
neon.com/blog/electric-joins…
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Dang @ElectricSQL is shutting down their cloud offering, meaning you have just 1 month to migrate off and host it yourself
Just another thing to do before officially launching @LuciraApp
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Electric retweeted
Yes! @ElectricSQL sync with @neondatabase Lakebase postgres is going to be a dream stack!
I'm really excited for joining @databricks to continue building sync and making Lakebase the best platform for building apps and agents.
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So excited to be joining @neondatabase
Huge thanks to @nikitabase, @kelvich and everyone for bringing us on board.
PGlite + real-time sync have emerged as key primitives in an era where millions of apps are deployed by agents.
We’re excited to announce @ElectricSQL is joining team Neon at Databricks to build the world's most advanced Postgres backend platform.
neon.com/blog/electric-joins…
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