I've been using https://neon.tech in production at Devlog https://dev.log.xyz for the last few months, really quite happy with the pricing and the performance. Clearly made by and for developers.
The only surprise I had was that they don't show you any database logs! Turns out I haven't needed this so it's not a big deal, but that's the biggest departure from a "traditional hosted postgres" service.
Aside from that, the only missing feature is the ability to create an Organization rather than hosting projects in a personally-affiliated account, but this is apparently coming soon.
The branching features work really well and I've used it a few times now to debug issues and test migrations without impacting production. I haven't set up the per-pull-request-preview-environment stuff yet but I plan to and I like that Neon makes it easy.
EDIT: oh, the one other annoyance is that last time I checked, it was not possible to create a read-only replica in a different region than the primary compute node. Or something like that, I'm still not sure, and multi-region read replicas are not particularly necessary for me right now (Devlog still in early alpha, not a lot of customers) so I just moved on. Issue tracked here https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4178
Oh wow. I love the idea of DevLog. I’ve spent a lot of time helping engineering teams get better at regularly communicating what we’re doing, with context, that everyone in the company can understand. Have you shared this yet?
I haven't shared this widely yet but a few friends have tried it out and we're dogfooding it internally as we develop it. You should be able to sign up and try it out self-serve right now (for free until we set up a business bank account!) but it is very much an alpha product, bugs included.
Send me an email (peter @ dev.log.xyz OR peter @ peterdowns.com) if you'd like a demo or you're willing to tell me more about the problems you're hoping Devlog can solve for you!
Apologies, I'm not super clear on the difference between managed and hosted. Very much a happy customer already and excited to see continued improvements!
An important difference is that we are monitoring your database for abnormalities like replica lag, server crashes (for whatever reason), etc. We are handling server and extension updates. We are trying to make it so that your database is not something you have to worry about in the slightest.
The only surprise I had was that they don't show you any database logs! Turns out I haven't needed this so it's not a big deal, but that's the biggest departure from a "traditional hosted postgres" service.
Aside from that, the only missing feature is the ability to create an Organization rather than hosting projects in a personally-affiliated account, but this is apparently coming soon.
The branching features work really well and I've used it a few times now to debug issues and test migrations without impacting production. I haven't set up the per-pull-request-preview-environment stuff yet but I plan to and I like that Neon makes it easy.
EDIT: oh, the one other annoyance is that last time I checked, it was not possible to create a read-only replica in a different region than the primary compute node. Or something like that, I'm still not sure, and multi-region read replicas are not particularly necessary for me right now (Devlog still in early alpha, not a lot of customers) so I just moved on. Issue tracked here https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4178