# Performance tips for Neon Postgres

DevFeed: [Performance tips for Neon Postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/performance-tips-for-neon-postgres-5713.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/performance-tips-for-neon-postgres>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-04-04T16:56:28Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [load](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [tips](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tips.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents performance tips for Neon Postgres, covering connection pooling, resource sizing, autoscaling, and query optimization. It explains how to investigate slow queries using query statistics and EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).

## Source excerpt

Neon is serverless Postgres. Neon databases elastically scale up and down according to load--including scaling to zero--and database operations are greatly simplified via robust API support and database branching capabilities. But just like every Postgres, to get the most out of Ne...