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title: "How to use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-neon-and-ephemeral-environments-to-simplify-serverless-development-hyvzug3to
source_url: https://theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-to-use-neon-and-ephemeral-environments-to-simplify-serverless-development/
type: article
source: "theburningmonk.com"
published: 2025-05-01T12:19:09.539Z
updated: 2025-05-01T12:19:26.978Z
tags: ["aws", "cicd", "serverless"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
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# How to use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development

**[theburningmonk.com](https://daily.dev/sources/theburningmonk)** · 12 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Ephemeral environments allow for the creation of temporary, isolated system copies that don't affect shared environments, with benefits such as cost efficiency and safe feature testing. Neon, a serverless database platform for PostgreSQL, provides fast scaling and cold starts, integrated PgBouncer for connection handling, and a data API for executing queries, making it ideal for ephemeral environments. This guide explains how to use Neon with ephemeral environments, automate branch management, and incorporate these processes into a CI/CD pipeline for efficient serverless development workflows.

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