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How can you have an SQL database without a server? Do they just mean container-on-demand?

• tristan957 3y ago
  We spawn a Postgres instance on the fly if it isn't already up in just a few hundred milliseconds. Cold start times are always something we try to improve. (Neon engineer)
  • kingspact 3y ago
    A process? Or like a container with Postgres in it?
    • tristan957 3y ago
      It is a VM which is hosted in a Kubernetes pod.
      • kingspact 2y ago
        We just run everything on a small cheap Threadripper with a mere 1/2TB RAM, it just sits in the co-founder's basement.