# From days to minutes: how Neo.Tax accelerated their development lifecycle

DevFeed: [From days to minutes: how Neo.Tax accelerated their development lifecycle](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-days-to-minutes-how-neo-tax-accelerated-their-development-lifecycle-5282.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/from-days-to-minutes-how-neo-tax-accelerated-their-development-lifecycle>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-06-03T16:40:27Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [GitHub Copilot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-copilot.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [tech-lead](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-lead.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

Neo.Tax describes how Neon database branching reduced its product testing and PDF-generation workflow from days to minutes. The team can create a branch, link it to a ticket, and use its URL in local development instead of repeatedly resetting databases, running migrations, and transferring verified values into end-to-end test fixtures.

## Source excerpt

"Database branching is the best quality-of-life improvement to my tech stack that I can think of in recent years. Second to maybe only Copilot" Miguel Hernandez, Backend Tech Lead at Neo.Tax Neo.Tax specializes in automating the calculation of tax credits for startups, enterprise...