# Cold starts just got hot

DevFeed: [Cold starts just got hot](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cold-starts-just-got-hot-5135.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/cold-starts-just-got-hot>)

Author: Sam Kleinman

Published: 2023-07-25T19:07:11Z

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>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [extensions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extensions.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [resource](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resource.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [startup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startup.md>)

## AI overview

Neon describes reducing cold-start time for idle compute resources that become active, from an ideal 3-6 seconds to about 500 milliseconds in many cases.

## Source excerpt

tl;dr> Over the past few months, a bunch of efforts by the engineering team have greatly reduced our "cold start time" for compute resources for idle computes that become active. This post explores the problem and how the Neon team worked on this problem. Background: What's a cold s...