“With its API-first approach, Neon made it easy for us to integrate a managed Postgres into our platform. Its approach allowed us to maintain a serverless experience for our users, enabling them to optimize resources and costs for their fullstack applications while maintaining great responsiveness”

Andreia-Irina Ocanoaia, Technical Lead at Genezio

Genezio is a function-as-a-service platform designed to make deploying fullstack applications easy and efficient. It offers backend services such as serverless functions, managed databases, out-of-the-box authentication, and frontend hosting, all with a focus on providing a great developer experience. Like Vercel, Replit, Koyeb, and many others, Genezio partners with Neon to offer a serverless Postgres database to all their developers.

The Genezio mission: making application development easy and efficient 

What distinguishes the Genezio platform from other providers is its focus on serverless architecture. By emphasizing serverless, Genezio offers a platform that is both fast and efficient, delivering functions at a fraction of the cost compared to other providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Vercel or Netlify.

Genezio Functions excel by reducing cold start times, offering a median of around 54ms—significantly lower than other platforms. This ensures frictionless deployment and fast performance where it matters most for developers.

Since the early days, the team at Genezio aimed to offer a fullstack experience that is delightful for developers to use, allowing them to focus on building their application rather than managing infrastructure. While self-hosting Postgres or using traditional cloud providers like AWS was an option for the end users, these approaches wouldn’t have delivered the fully serverless experience they wanted to offer their users as quickly as Neon Serverless Postgres did.

Finding Neon: an API-first, cost-efficient Postgres to add to their platform 

During their search, Genezio came across Neon, a fully managed serverless Postgres. Neon’s serverless approach aligned perfectly with the needs of Genezio Functions, making it an optimal managed database solution for a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform. This integration enabled Genezio to offer a single-command full-stack deployment experience, further enhancing the ease and speed with which developers can launch and manage their applications.

Neon immediately stood out with some unique benefits that made it very attractive for their use case:

Partnership plans 

First, Neon had a partnership program directly aimed at making it easy for platforms to incorporate Neon into their suite. Vercel, Replit, Retool, and Koyeb were using Neon to back up their Postgres offerings.

Serverless developer experience

Second, Neon’s serverless capabilities, including scale-to-zero and automatic scaling, matched Genezio’s need for a database that could handle itself without requiring server management from them or their users. Neon databases were also very fast to deploy, supporting their focus on performance.

Cost-efficiency with usage-based billing 

Neon’s genuine serverless architecture allowed Genezio to offer a generous hobby plan, helping developers start and scale their projects. Genezio also provides competitive pricing for commercial projects, including PostgreSQL resources, function invocations, and collaboration features.

API-first nature 

Lastly, Neon’s API-first approach made the integration straightforward, allowing Genezio to offer their users a seamless, end-to-end development experience from backend services to data storage. This advantage enables developers to efficiently handle database operations without extensive resources.

Improving the experience for the Genezio developers 

Genezio quickly incorporated Neon’s Postgres into their platform. They now offer a full-stack platform that is both powerful and user-friendly:

• One-stop shop. Via Neon, Genezio can provide an all-in-one platform that eliminates the need for external database services, streamlining the development process for their users while expanding their revenue opportunities.
• From hobbyists to Enterprises: Developers can start for free via Genezio’s Hobby plan and scale their applications cost-effectively as they grow—without being blocked by the database.
• Serverless scalability. In the Pro plans, Neon’s ability to handle variable workloads efficiently ensures that applications remain responsive and reliable, even during demand spikes, without requiring time investments from the engineer.

Partner with Neon and build your free tier 

If you have a developer platform, give your developers what they want: Postgres. To learn how you could integrate Neon into your suite, reach out to us. And don’t forget to also explore Genezio for your serverless projects.