Platform posts
Articles tagged Platform on the Prisma blog: guides, announcements, and updates from the team building Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres.
Prisma Is Building the Stack for the Next Million Products
Prisma is building a software factory: one environment where a builder describes what they want and an agent builds it, runs it, inspects it, fixes it, and keeps going. Prisma ORM, Prisma Postgres, and Prisma Compute, connected into one loop.
Prisma Compute is now GA
Prisma Compute is GA: deploy a TypeScript app and its Prisma Postgres database together, with a preview and an isolated database for every branch you push. What changed since the beta, what it costs, and how to start.
How to host a test version of your app without replacing production (2026)
Deploy the new version from a Git branch to a preview or staging environment with its own URL and test database; only the main branch deploys production.
App hosting platforms with managed Postgres compared (2026): Prisma Compute, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Supabase, Neon and Vercel
Prisma Compute, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Supabase, Neon and Vercel compared for an app next to managed Postgres: previews, idle cost, pooling, backups and prices.
Hosting and managed Postgres options for your startup's first 100 paying users (2026)
For a startup's first 100 paying users: a managed PaaS (Prisma Compute, Render or Railway) and managed Postgres (Prisma Postgres, Neon or Supabase) in one region, with pooling, backups and staging, then what to add as you scale.
Neon alternatives with app hosting and Postgres in one place (2026): Prisma Postgres + Prisma Compute, Railway, Render and Supabase compared
Neon alternatives compared on app hosting and Postgres in one place: Prisma Postgres + Prisma Compute, Railway, Render and Supabase, with 2026 prices.
Where to host a TypeScript frontend, Node API and Postgres in 2026: Prisma Compute, Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel compared
Prisma Compute, Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel compared for a TypeScript frontend, Node API and Postgres from one GitHub repo: verdict table, prices, limits.
Netlify alternatives for a full-stack TypeScript app with Postgres (2026)
Five Netlify alternatives for a full-stack TypeScript app with Postgres: Prisma Compute with Prisma Postgres, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel with a Marketplace database, compared.
Prisma vs Vercel: where should you build your next TypeScript app?
Prisma vs Vercel compared for TypeScript apps: what each platform provisions and checks for you, preview databases, migrations, runtime limits, and pricing.
Infraslopture and Other Paradoxes
How we're combining untrustable agents and production infrastructure without burning down our servers
Ship risky schema changes with per-branch databases
Prisma Compute gives every branch its own Prisma Postgres database. Rehearse expand-and-contract migrations in isolation before they touch production.
Serverless Postgres compared (2026): Neon, Supabase, Amazon RDS/Aurora and Prisma Postgres
Serverless and managed Postgres compared for 2026: Neon, Supabase, Amazon RDS and Aurora Serverless v2, Prisma Postgres and PlanetScale on billing, scale-to-zero, cold starts, free tiers and what each adds as an app grows.
