# We're building the boring backend for apps and agents

DevFeed: [We're building the boring backend for apps and agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-re-building-the-boring-backend-for-apps-and-agents-5850.md>)

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

Author: Bryan Clark

Published: 2026-05-28T12:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

Neon argues that reliable, familiar backend infrastructure is essential for applications and AI agents. It highlights low entry cost, isolated database branching, and serverless scaling, and describes expanding its backend primitives beyond Postgres to authentication, data APIs, storage, compute, and an AI gateway.

## Source excerpt

Recently, everyone has been talking about throwing it all away and building entirely new magic sci-fi cloud infrastructure for agents. Building real infrastructure is hard enough as it is. AI has only raised the stakes, dialing up the operational requirements and pushing the limits on every axis imaginable...