Company
Date Published
Sept. 25, 2024
Author
Carlota Soto
Word count
992
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Many companies are wasting money on unused compute due to overprovisioned production databases and non-prod environments running up costs. A recent survey found that 63% of developers needed their allocated compute capacity for 8 hours a day or less, with traffic being much lower the rest of the time. Additionally, 56% of developers were using their dev/test instances for 4 hours per day or less. This translates into significant wasted money on unused resources. Neon is a managed Postgres provider that offers solutions to this problem by allowing users to pay only for the compute they're using through autoscaling and scale-to-zero functionality.