Session: Serverless PostgreSQL
Neon offers PostgreSQL as a serverless cloud service, which can automatically scale depending on the workload, and can scale all the way down to zero when it’s not used. That is a good fit for modern stateless applications.
A database is very stateful by its nature, and PostgreSQL is a mature piece of server software. Creating the serverless illusion is not trivial. I will walk through some of the challenges and solutions in bridging that gap:
- Start up in < 1 s
- Separating compute and storage
- Running PostgreSQL in a microVM in Kubernetes
- Connection management and pooling
