You just opened a PR that adds a new user role to your app. Your staging database has the schema changes. Your preview deploy is live. But when QA tries to test it, they hit a wall the test users in your auth system still have the old roles. Someone needs to manually update them....

If your application has user accounts, authentication touches everything who can access what, what data belongs to whom, and how your system behaves when sessions expire or credentials are invalid. Auth is also one of the most commonly mocked components in test suites. The reason...

Staging environments drift. The fix is obvious refresh staging from production regularly. The problem is that “regularly” and “multi hour database copy” don’t mix well. Three traditional approaches pg_dump / pg_restore This simple route works for small databases and not critical ...

Something fairly big happened at Neon recently, but nobody noticed – and that’s a good thing. We silently migrated many thousands of user accounts to organizations (team owned accounts), moving more than +10M projects in the process. We managed to do this without downtime, withou...

We just launched Neon Auth and of course the immediate follow up task I had was “let’s teach my AI tools to use it for me”. So we’ve been wiring Neon Auth into our MCP so you can open Cursor, Claude, or your IDE or choice and let the AI build a backend for you. Here’s […]

Back when hashtags were a thing, you could search Twitter and find NoStaging, a community dedicated to banishing the concept of staging from the development world. In the eyes of the NoStagers, staging was costly, confusing, and corruptible. And they were/are entirely correct. A ...

“I’ve worked with Postgres, Snowflake, and AWS in my professional environment, but for building a side project, I wanted something easier to set up. It hardly took me 10 minutes to understand how to link Neon with my application and how to make my ML workflows connect to it” (Dee...

Identity is one of those things that sits quietly at the center of most applications. You notice it more as your system grows. It affects permissions, data ownership, multi tenancy, audit logs, and a good portion of your schema design. It becomes part of your runtime and part of ...