Trying to fully understand Vercel Postgres/Neon
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Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman posted this in #help-forum
Cuvier’s Dwarf CaimanOP
To my understanding, Neon enables a PostgresDB to live in a serverless environment, as opposed having a dedicated server running it all the time.(Like Supabase or Railway)
This means that theoretically, we do not need to worry about database scale issues.
To me, it feels like the value prop of having your DB in serverless env is not incredibly high because a database normally doesn't need that much compute. Our product would need to hit an incredibly large scale in order for us to worry about scaling our database. Is that the main advantage of having our DB in a serverless environment?
This means that theoretically, we do not need to worry about database scale issues.
To me, it feels like the value prop of having your DB in serverless env is not incredibly high because a database normally doesn't need that much compute. Our product would need to hit an incredibly large scale in order for us to worry about scaling our database. Is that the main advantage of having our DB in a serverless environment?
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Asian black bear
Another advantage that comes to mind: zero ops/it overhead/it-just-works.
the compute is pretty expensive tho
idk, I would not use this product
Cuvier’s Dwarf CaimanOP
i guess i'ts zero ops if you just do Raw SQL?
but imo the experience of connecting prisma to a db URL is not much of a set up either right
but imo the experience of connecting prisma to a db URL is not much of a set up either right