alt Hacker NewsI remember the first post by the Neon team here on HN. I think I commented at the time that I thought it was a great idea. I’ve never had a need to use them yet, but thought I always would.
Cynically, am I the only one who takes pause because of an acquisition like this? It worries me that they will need to be more focused on the needs of their new owners, rather than their users. In theory, the needs should align — but I’m not sure it usually works out that way in practice.
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kaeshiwaza • yesterday at 11:29 AM
Taking a pause also... I don't believe serving IA can be aligned to serving devs. I hope that the part of the work related to the core of PostgreSQL will help the community.
> I remember the first post by the Neon team here on HN. I think I commented at the time that I thought it was a great idea.
Same! I remember it too. I found it quite fascinating. Separation of storage and compute was something new to me, and I was asking them about Pageserver [0]. I also asked for career advice on how to get into database development [1].
Two years later, I ended up working on very similar disaggregated storage at Turso database.
Congrats to the Neon team!
[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756671
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756510