Neon tech - Separation of storage and compute for Postgres
summary
Neon.tech claims a serverless, fully managed Postgres built around separation of storage and compute with an 80k‑line Rust storage layer and safekeepers plus page servers that flush to S3, letting compute scale to zero and cold storage be bottomless. It uses the unmodified Postgres binary, starts idle compute in about a second, supports branching without copying (demo says create 5000 branches from a 5TB DB), and is open source with a developer preview.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:44Me: Bojan Serafimov
- 3:26Neon.tech founding team (Founded March 2021)
- 5:13Outline
- 5:29Neon: Cloud-native postgres 1. Neon: Cloud-native postgres
- 10:03Architecture: Storage system in depth
- 12:092. Architecture: Storage format
- 14:59Features
- 20:59What would you do with Neon?
- 25:38Try neon.tech now!
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