# Sharing Excess Uses Neon Database Branches for Development Environments

DevFeed: [Sharing Excess Uses Neon Database Branches for Development Environments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/branching-as-the-environment-how-sharing-excess-ships-faster-on-neon-5040.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/branching-as-the-environment-how-sharing-excess-ships-faster-on-neon>)

Author: Taraneh Dohmer

Published: 2025-10-23T17:49:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Drizzle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/drizzle.md>), [Bun](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bun.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Vite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vite.md>)

Tags: [bun](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bun.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [drizzle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/drizzle.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [vite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vite.md>)

## AI overview

This case study describes how Sharing Excess, a nonprofit food-rescue organization, uses Neon database branches for production, staging, and per-developer environments. Its three-person engineering team uses a Bun and TypeScript monorepo with React, Vite, Hono, Postgres, and Drizzle ORM.

## Source excerpt

"For a small team, branching and scale-to-zero just make our lives markedly easier. We're able to use real data without risky scripts touching production, and we don't pay overnight for what we don't use." -- Ryan McHenry, Head of Technology, Sharing Excess What is Sharing Excess?...