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Want to know which providers offer the lowest latency? We deployed a simple Hono server on differerent cloud and compared their latency using OpenStatus.

Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries.  We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first developed the Neon driver to help developers query their Postgres databases closer to their end-users. […]

Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not generally persisted from one request to the next. That means we can’t […]