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by raoufchebri 1072 days ago
Neon separates storage and compute. The compute part is serverless and can scale up and down on demand. The storage has multiple layers: Safekeepers for durability and Pageservers to reconstruct pages from WAL.

The data is also offloaded to S3. Here is a diagram that describes the architecture: https://neon.tech/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon-hwp.dre...