How We Migrated to Serverless Postgres with Neon

The Journey to Serverless

When we first launched, we used a traditional RDS instance. As our traffic grew, so did our bills. We realized we needed a database that scaled dynamically with our application.

Why Neon?

Neon's separation of storage and compute allowed us to scale to zero during quiet periods, and instantly scale up when traffic spiked. They also offer database branches.

The Migration Process

1. Setup: We created a Neon account and provisioned a project.
2. Export: We exported a logical backup from our RDS instance using pg_dump.
3. Import: We restored using pg_restore.

The entire process took less than an hour!