# How Dispatch speeds up development with Neon while keeping workloads on Aurora

DevFeed: [How Dispatch speeds up development with Neon while keeping workloads on Aurora](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-dispatch-speeds-up-development-with-neon-while-keeping-workloads-on-aurora-5348.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-dispatch-speeds-up-development-with-neon-while-keeping-workloads-on-aurora>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-10-14T15:31:55Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

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## AI overview

The article describes how Dispatch uses Neon branching to create isolated development and verification environments without copying large volumes of data. Dispatch is transitioning from a monolithic system to a microservices architecture, using replicated workload data with personally identifiable information excluded for testing. Neon's serverless writer endpoints are intended to address Aurora's single-writer bottleneck and reduce overprovisioning costs during spiky traffic, while Neon branches accelerate the software development lifecycle.

## Source excerpt

"Neon's branching paradigm has been great for us. It lets us create isolated environments without having to move huge amounts of data around. This has lightened the load on our ops team, now it's effortless to spin up entire environments."Jonathan Reyes, Principal Engineer at Dis...