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lateforwork ◴[31 Oct 25 02:23 UTC] No.45767674[source]▶

Databricks Neon [1] has a free tier for their Postgres service. Neon's strength that allows them to offer a free tier lies in their serverless, cloud-native PostgreSQL architecture with a separation of storage and compute resources. This allows Neon to scale compute to zero automatically when the database is idle.

[1] https://neon.com

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1. impulser_ ◴[01 Nov 25 04:58 UTC] No.45779361[source]▶

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What allows them to offer a free tier is that they are ok with burning and losing money not because of how they built their service.

Even when a database scales to zero someone still has to pay.

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