# Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them

DevFeed: [Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them-5676.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-10-24T15:47:36Z

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>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Supabase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supabase.md>), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

This case study explains how BeatGig uses Neon read replicas to provide safe, read-only database access for analytics and development environments. The replicas can be created quickly, share storage with the primary compute, autosuspend when unused, and protect core application operations from inefficient or resource-heavy queries.

## Source excerpt

"One of the big selling points of Neon was creating read replicas in seconds that scale to zero. We frequently spin up dev servers and sandbox environments, so providing easy, read-only access to the team while keeping maintenance low was a big win for us" (Jeremy Berman, CTO at...