Nikita | Scaling Postgres

Database architecture thread. Technical. There has been several startups building an operational relational databases focused on OLTP with a shared nothing architecture. @neondatabase is using a different approach - shared storage. What's the difference?

@neondatabase You are the GOAT. PITR just saved me in production.. I had a weird bug that reset the cms content with seed data if the payload wasn't normalized properly, and with @OpenAICodexCli and MCP I was able to fix prod data safely, and fix the bug. SO MUCH EASIER WITH AI.

@tferriss Is the face on the photo @eladgil ?

"Often these things boil down to one single question: What is the one thing I need to believe about this company that makes me think it's going to continue to be really big? Usually, it's one thing. If it's three things, it's too complicated. It's probably not going to work. If it's no things, then it doesn't make much sense." — Elad Gil Listen to my interview with @eladgil: tim.blog/2026/04/29/ela…

Agents > humans in modern software engineering

Agents are great testers and bug fixers if focused on this work. For code bases with a high quality bar (databases) and massive test suites, agents root causing bugs and proposing fixes is a big time saver. I hope they keep improving as testers! @adamprout/agents-are-better-testers-than-we-are-30b1738114d6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@adamprout/age…

The @p0 team is ripping. Very excited to be involved. 🚀

@neondatabase @cursor_ai Docs team wrote about technical lessons learned making docs accessible to agents here: neon.com/blog/agents-gr…

Docs team at @neondatabase and Lakebase were first AI powerusers outside ENG, still top leaderboards... - Content: No slop, using AI for reviews, fact-checking, fan-out updates, process automation - Code: 10x'ed contribution to docs codebase - Tools: Primarily @cursor_ai

Meet the new Netlify Database. Fully managed Postgres, built into the platform. Every agent run automatically gets its own database branch. Here's why that matters. 🧵 netlify.com/blog/netlify-d…

In the agentic works branching is now table stakes

Wow.

live coding with @andrelandgraf does not disappoint

@guidomb @neondatabase @krystiangebis Why not one project per customer ?

@nikitabase @neondatabase @krystiangebis Would be awesome to be able to restore db independently instead of all dbs in the project. We have 1 db per customer and all the operations to restore are not that helpful when applied to all dbs in the project.

This is why you use database branching. Never give your agents access to prod. Ever. I love @neondatabase - have an article in the works about how i use it with agents, should be out this week

I haven't used Codex in a bit, but with GPT-5.5 it is currently crushing a one-shot prompt with @stripe Projects for provisioning @neondatabase for db, @Railway for hosting, and using the Stripe Sessions 2026 website for design reference. One aside: I ended up reverting back to Claude with Opus 4.6 to do a secondary design critique and polish improvements. And @mrramibanna will be happy to know that Stripe Projects was managed gracefully by both!

@eladgil Why neck fat?

New life plan- Move to Brooklyn Get neck tat Ride bike everywhere Cold brew own coffee (also start drinking coffee) Adopt 12 year old stray cat, name him Nietzsche Vape mango pods, but ironically Wear scarf everywhere during summer

Agents grew up, so did our docs. This is what docs should look like in the agentic eta neon.com/blog/agents-gr…

@wolfejosh I have a 15 year old @missionworkshop . Going strong !

1/ cool article I love backpacks + mostly use WNDRD PRVKE they didn't pay me for this nor did i fund them i paid $250+ and own a few (small 21L for every day carry or 'edc' as bag nerds call it; 31L for camera trips + larger 41L for travel where i throw my kids stuff in too)

@elonmusk please add locking out video games to parental controls in Tesla. Every parent wants to limit screen time. It’s currently tied to Valet mode which makes no product sense.

@RonConway @garrytan @SingleStoreDB @neondatabase Please get well

@RonConway @garrytan Ron you don’t remember me but you were a huge inspiration for @SingleStoreDB and @neondatabase . While at YC talk you said once “Founders don’t ski”. I took it super seriously and never skied until 1bln valuation in each.

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