Happy 30th birthday Postgres! 🎉
What an accomplishment, almost nothing in tech has stayed relevant for 30 years.
From humble beginnings as a Berkeley research project to becoming the default for everything from side projects to massive production systems.
30 years later, the
We're making Lakebase Search available on Neon: hybrid vector + full-text search built for agents that need retrieval in their operational loop.
No separate systems. Same database. Optimized for Neon's storage-compute architecture.
Full technical writeup 👇
This is wild.
@neondatabase is now sponsoring better-drizzle.
I launched better-drizzle because I wanted Prisma-like DX without giving up Drizzle’s SQL-first approach.
Getting support from Neon this early means a lot.
It makes it easier to keep improving the project, shipping
I’m launching better-drizzle.
Drizzle ORM is great when you want SQL-first, type-safe control.
But in every real app I kept rewriting the same glue:
pagination, includes, nested filters, exists/count helpers, hooks, soft delete, timestamps, upserts...
better-drizzle wraps your
shieldcn has joined @neondatabase’s OSS program!
So wonderful to be supported by such an amazing company and community. Thank you neon for backing open source.
More than one million active on @neondatabase free plan.
So proud of our eng team making Postgres more accessible to the world. Fun fact: We spend much more on logs than we do operating the free tier. The lakebase architecture makes it incredibly efficient.