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How lakebase architecture delivers 5x faster Postgres writes
Neon eliminated a decade-old Postgres performance bottleneck by pushing full-page write operations from compute to its distributed storage layer, achieving up to 5x throughput improvements and reducing WAL generation by 94% in some cases. The "image generation pushdown" technique, now rolled out across Neon's entire fleet, leverages the company's separated compute-storage architecture to solve a durability problem that's structurally impossible to fix in traditional monolithic Postgres deployments.
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