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Very petrifying that Vercel say Neon is GA and the founder of Neon disagrees.

https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-postgres-is-now-availabl...

Dhruva23on PlanetScale vs. Neon: The Continued Saga Between MySQL and PostgreSQL

Paid for by Neon? Everything Neon doesn't have is marked as "doesn't have it yet..". The article doesn't mention the day long downtimes and widespread reports of data corruption.

Dhruva23on 20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding

Didn't you (Neon) just announce pg_embedding and claim 20x performance over pg_vector even though pg_embedding just runs in memory and doesn't replicate the data?

Scary that database engineers do not understand how reckless that is.

Dhruva23on HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33909616 history. Why were sockets used in the first place?

Neon is slow and flaky I am thankful you are making changes but strongmanning your technical choice when you are wrong is concerning as a user. I still use Neon due to not being able to move back to heroku. I also you keep making open source more.