--- title: Using Neon's Scale to Zero with Long-Running Applications description: Neon's scale-to-zero feature suspends Postgres databases during inactivity, which can sever connections in long-running (non-serverless) applications. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-neon-s-scale-to-zero-with-long-running-applications-bkdst4kg6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Neon's Scale to Zero with Long-Running Applications | daily.dev og:description: Neon's scale-to-zero feature suspends Postgres databases during inactivity, which can sever connections in long-running (non-serverless) applications. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-neon-s-scale-to-zero-with-long-running-applications-bkdst4kg6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BkDst4kG6.png og:image:alt: Using Neon's Scale to Zero with Long-Running Applications 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. # Using Neon's Scale to Zero with Long-Running Applications **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Neon's scale-to-zero feature suspends Postgres databases during inactivity, which can sever connections in long-running (non-serverless) applications. The post explains how scale-to-zero is triggered, why naive connection handling fails, and how client-side connection pooling (using node-postgres pg.Pool) solves reconnection and performance issues. Benchmarks show pooled connections deliver ~14x better throughput (370 vs 26.4 req/sec). A real-world example using HTMX, Fastify, and Drizzle ORM demonstrates the full implementation, with source code on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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