Platform posts
Articles tagged Platform on the Prisma blog: guides, announcements, and updates from the team building Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres.
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.
TypeScript 7 in a Real Monorepo: 3x Faster Type Checks, Mostly Config Changes
TypeScript 7 ships the compiler as a native Go port. We migrated a large TypeScript monorepo to it: whole-repo type checking went from ~74s to ~24s with no memory tuning. Here are the numbers, the exact config diffs, the sharp edges, and who should migrate now.
Claude Generated 50 Websites Overnight. Prisma Compute Helped Ship Them.
Ali Fatemi gave Claude the Prisma docs and CLI, then used Prisma Compute to turn AI-generated websites into working URLs.
Prisma Compute vs Vercel Pricing
Prisma Compute vs Vercel, priced line by line: the same workload runs ~$98 vs ~$236. See why, and why Vercel bills the workflow while Prisma bills the work.
How One Founder Builds a Live Sports Platform Without a Database Team
How Xeito uses Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres to ship live scoring, leagues, payments, and player workflows without a database team.
Evaluating Object Storage Providers for Prisma Compute
We benchmarked Tigris and Cloudflare R2 from six Prisma Compute regions using a latency-sensitive virtual filesystem workload, with AWS S3 and S3 Express as a baseline.
How Prisma Compute Keeps Time Accurate in Long-Running Applications
How Prisma Compute keeps wall-clock time accurate in long-running Firecracker microVMs, using the host-paired KVM PTP clock instead of an in-guest NTP daemon.
Price the Work, Not the Workflow
Agents can ship, preview, test, and retry in loops. Infrastructure pricing should charge for the work an app performs, not the workflow around it.
App Hosting and Compute Platforms for AI Agents in 2026
A field guide to the 2026 wave of app-hosting and compute platforms (Prisma Compute, Neon, Cloudflare Containers, Hosting.com, Unkey, and Insforge) and how close each gets to one coherent stack for agents.
How I Built a Chat App That Never Drops a Token
A personal walkthrough of building Open Chat (oss.chat): durable, resumable AI chat on Durable Streams, Prisma Streams, TanStack DB, and Prisma Compute. How each piece works and what it enables.
Deploy Prisma Apps with create-prisma
create-prisma now scaffolds Compute-ready Prisma apps with prisma.compute.ts, compute:deploy, Prisma Postgres, and Prisma Skills add-ons.
Image Transformations with Bun on Prisma Compute
Bun includes native image transformations, and Prisma Compute runs on Bun. Build image resize and format routes as ordinary app requests instead of paying for a separate image transformation service.