--- title: How 222 uses Neon to handle their frequent spikes in demand description: 222, a YC-backed social experiences platform, shares how they use Neon's serverless Postgres to handle traffic spikes that occur during weekend and evening... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-222-uses-neon-to-handle-their-frequent-spikes-in-demand-2mjfdriht twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How 222 uses Neon to handle their frequent spikes in demand | daily.dev og:description: 222, a YC-backed social experiences platform, shares how they use Neon's serverless Postgres to handle traffic spikes that occur during weekend and evening... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-222-uses-neon-to-handle-their-frequent-spikes-in-demand-2mjfdriht og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2mjFdrIhT.png og:image:alt: How 222 uses Neon to handle their frequent spikes in demand og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How 222 uses Neon to handle their frequent spikes in demand **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 222, a YC-backed social experiences platform, shares how they use Neon's serverless Postgres to handle traffic spikes that occur during weekend and evening events. Key benefits include autoscaling that dynamically adjusts compute resources without manual intervention, and database branching via Neon's REST API and the Goose library to safely test schema migrations on production data copies. The team migrated from Airtable to Neon after evaluating Planetscale and Supabase, choosing Neon for its Postgres support, autoscaling, and copy-on-write branching features. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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