Exploring Neon as a Serverless Postgres Alternative for .NET Applications on Azure - Part 1 (Simple ASP.NET Core on App Service)

Neon , a serverless Postgres platform, was recently brought to my attention. It comes with the promise of some interesting features like scale-to-zero, on-demand autoscaling, point-in-time restore and time travel with up to 30 days retention, instant read replicas, and probably the most unique, branching (which allows you to quickly branch your schema and data to create isolated development, test,…