--- title: How Cedalio uses Neon for an efficient development workflow description: Cedalio, a YC23 ESG data platform, switched from DynamoDB to Neon's managed Postgres after finding AWS RDS too cumbersome. Key benefits include database... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-cedalio-uses-neon-for-an-efficient-development-workflow-sewjonyov twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Cedalio uses Neon for an efficient development workflow | daily.dev og:description: Cedalio, a YC23 ESG data platform, switched from DynamoDB to Neon's managed Postgres after finding AWS RDS too cumbersome. Key benefits include database... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-cedalio-uses-neon-for-an-efficient-development-workflow-sewjonyov og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/seWJoNYoV.png og:image:alt: How Cedalio uses Neon for an efficient development workflow 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 Cedalio uses Neon for an efficient development workflow **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cedalio, a YC23 ESG data platform, switched from DynamoDB to Neon's managed Postgres after finding AWS RDS too cumbersome. Key benefits include database branching integrated with GitHub Actions and Fly.io to spin up isolated environments per PR, scale-to-zero for cost-effective non-production branches, and a user-friendly API that supports their one-database-per-customer architecture. Their backend also leverages Postgres WAL to capture all operations, which are then encrypted and committed to smart contracts for tamper-proof auditing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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