# Neon: A New Approach to Database Development

DevFeed: [Neon: A New Approach to Database Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/neon-a-new-approach-to-database-development-5638.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/neon-ga>)

Author: Nikita Shamgunov

Published: 2024-04-15T13:06:18Z

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>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [developer velocity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-velocity.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developer-velocity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-velocity.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>)

## AI overview

Neon announces general availability of its Postgres-based database platform, describing improvements to its internals and experience scaling to more than 700,000 databases. The article presents Neon as a solution for business-critical workloads that emphasizes database scalability, fast provisioning, branching with copied data, point-in-time restoration, and improved developer velocity.

## Source excerpt

Neon is now Generally Available. We've shipped major improvements to Neon internals that, combined with our operating experience scaling up to 700,000+ databases over the past year, give us the confidence that Neon is ready to support your business-critical workloads. If you're b...