Neon has shipped several developer experience improvements for Prisma users. Cold start times have been significantly reduced, especially when using Prisma 5 with a co-located database. Neon now provides both pooled (PgBouncer) and direct connection strings simultaneously, solving the issue where Prisma Migrate requires a direct connection while the app uses a pooled one. Additionally, the shadow database workaround for `prisma migrate dev` is no longer needed since Neon now supports managing roles and databases via SQL.
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Improving our cold start timesProviding pooled and direct connections to the databaseRemoving the need for manually creating the shadow databaseFinal thoughts28 Impressions