# How Proposales integrated Neon in their Postgres development workflow

DevFeed: [How Proposales integrated Neon in their Postgres development workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-proposales-integrated-neon-in-their-postgres-development-workflow-5279.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/frictionless-development-experience-with-neon-branching>)

Author: Raouf Chebri

Published: 2022-12-08T19:35:25Z

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>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [RDS for PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rds-for-postgresql.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>)

Tags: [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [rds-for-postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rds-for-postgresql.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how Proposales integrated Neon database branching into its Postgres development workflow. Proposales kept AWS RDS for PostgreSQL in production but replaced shared development databases and local Postgres with Docker with isolated cloud database branches. This improved collaboration and testing while reducing conflicts, data-loss risks, security concerns, and local resource requirements.

## Source excerpt

Switching databases is like a heart transplant, and migrating all your database's production, staging, and development environments across providers is a risky process that requires significant effort and expertise, all of which can be quite intimidating. But you don't have to ch...