@neondatabase at @Databricks, Co-founder @ElectricSQL (PGlite.dev, @DurableStreams, @tan_stack DB).
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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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We’re bringing Databricks Unity Gateway to developers on Neon (@neondatabase), and it’s the fastest AI Gateway for Kimi K3!
Databricks inference is moving super fast!
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hey SF! come to the Grace Cathedral 8pm Sept 21st when we open to shoot the lasers
pumped about the @constructive_io software collaboration with @nusalt and @IlluminatedArts 🫶
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That’s a event to go to if ever I’ve seen one.
Super stoked to team up with @swyx and @tylerjdunn on Thursday sep 24 to put on a series of “software factory show and tell” round tables at the @heavybit long horizon dev stack devguild
Come show off a small tactical thing that helps you ship better/faster/cleaner
45 minute sessions w/ small break
~12-20 people per session
Quick intros, 30s to intro yourself and what you want to show off
Organizers pick the first speaker, who presents and then picks the next speaker, and so on - audience driven!
2-5 minutes to demo, 2 minutes for questions
No pitches, show us something YOU do internally when building!
Have some free ticket codes still, DM if you want one!
luma.com/long-horizon-stack
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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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The Neon team (my new team!) will be in London and we're hosting a casual happy hour at Fitzroy Tavern on Sep 22. We'd love to hang out if you're in town. Good food + drinks + time to chat AI infra and Postgres. All details & RSVP luma.com/neoncom-0ce4
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Neon Auth 🤝 Mastra
Neon Auth is built on better-auth and gives you the same client SDK without having to manage the server part - pretty cool - especially for vibe coding projects where you don’t want to set up custom email sending etc
You can now wire Mastra's auth and role-based permissions directly to Neon Auth.
ALT Code snippet displays role-based access control setup for Mastra, defining permissions for admin and member roles.
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LONDON CALLING 🇬🇧💂🏼♀️
Next week I'll be London hosting Agent Night with @incident_io, @attio, @daytonaio, and @tldraw
Near capacity with a few spots left. Tag your UK friends and DM me to get off the waitlist 😉 luma.com/agent-night-london
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psst. London nerds. We are hiring.
We're hiring developers to work on Hegel (property-based testing for ~every language) in London with me, and are struggling a bit to source candidates, so I wrote a less professional post about why this is the coolest job ever and you should apply.
drmaciver.com/2026/09/come-w…
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Anyone who makes or uses open source software should read this article from @seldo as soon as possible. As someone who has tried and occasionally succeeded at making (our) open source software sustainable, I’ve never seen any proposal or piece of logic that comes this close to a “solution” for the masses as this. It’s wild, atomic, and could actually work.
seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-…
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I'm speaking at the @sfrubyconf on Nov 10 on my favorite topic: why start a new company on Ruby, Rails and AI today. This stack truly is a superpower for a builder, but as community we have work to do! Come to my talk and let's bring Ruby and programmer delight into the future!
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Am I reading @neondatabase pricing correctly? It's 5 GB of egress per project on the free tier and you can have 100 projects? Whereas @supabase gives 5 GB total? And then paying Supabase gives you 250 GB of egress total and Neon gives 500 GB per project. What am I missing here?
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Every frontier model recommends @neondatabase as best database choice. As a result, Neon is provisioning a new project every second. Great report from @ArmatureInc 👇
#1 in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Still first for GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1
@neondatabase ripped our leaderboard of which database agents choose.
Agents cite easy setup, branching and lower compute bills through scale-to-zero.
Every run open 👇
armature.tech/leaderboards#a…
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Neon is leading the pack for agent-native databases, and auth.md enables those agents to signup without a human involved.
Ship your own auth.md today: workos.com/auth-md
Agents can now get a Neon database without signup, and a human can claim it later. Your agent won’t stop because it needs you to create an account first.
We’re calling this flow Claimable Neon. It implements the @WorkOS auth.md spec: neon.com/claimable-neon
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You can now create a database without needing to signup. So no faffing with auth up front. Just spin up the resource and then claim it if you want to keep it.
It's similar flexibility to branching in that it's all designed to minimize friction for agents and experimentation.
Agents can now get a Neon database without signup, and a human can claim it later. Your agent won’t stop because it needs you to create an account first.
We’re calling this flow Claimable Neon. It implements the @WorkOS auth.md spec: neon.com/claimable-neon
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Agentic development brings real speed, but has broken collaboration. We can pretend, but is sending each other 50-100 PRs a day "teamwork"? @inazarova names the 2 kinds of work we're mixing up and shares 3 collab recipes for getting your human team back. evilmartians.com/chronicles/…
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This is awesome.
Real-time collaborative prompting & Diff Review nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1aKbdERZB…
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give your agent tools
We also built a native adapter for @mastra
@neon/tools/mastra exposes all Neon Management API tools for Mastra agents
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Only 71 new tools.
Already outdated - I think it's 71 now with the new custom domains tools 😅 @GlebCodes is shipping too fast
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